Have been working like a fiend on my novel, which is 104,000 words and counting. The agent had originally said 50-70,000, but I have been assured that a) my book doesn't read and feel like a 100,000 word novel and b) a lot of readers won't even bother to pick up such a slight volume anyway ( Read more... )

Healing Passage - Anne Frye's excellent suturing manual - revised, expanded, and re-illustrated in ways you never thought possible - is at the printer, and she is taking pre-orders at a discounted price. 503-255-3378 or anne@midwiferybooks.com ( Read more... )

Summer has finally arrived! The sky has been blue or mostly blue for several days. I'm about to hang my second load of wash on the clothesline. The girls have been at acting camp all week so I've been working on my novel. Next week is our road trip to the redwoods ( Read more... )

Second day of summer vacay and the sun has finally come out. The house is FULL of ants. THey are in the walls, they are coming through every crevice they can find. I've called a 'green' exterminator. If that doesn't work, I'm calling a rainbow one. I can't take it anymore. Hundreds in Sara's room, all over in her hamster cage, all over near the ( Read more... )

The rain has been endless, it is muggy, things are rotting. Yesterday was a glorious, beautiful sunny day, and the third grade picnic at Cathedral Park was awesome. Our sweet third graders sang us the "St. John's Bridge" song and they already look so much older and wiser than they did last January ( Read more... )

Finally got over to the LJ Book site and saved all my blatherings to PDF. I'm working on my novel right now and looking for some inspiration (and information) and so of course I got sidetracked... reading my LJ when it was new, and it was big, and lots of people were on it. I miss those days ( Read more... )

Took on the yard today, and I am happy to report that I am winning. Josie and I worked our asses off last fall pulling out all the little baby garlic mustard weeds and I'm happy to report there are almost none now ( Read more... )

"We're the only ones here! We're first! I feel so special..." you said, signing in on the day's new form in that confident, I-own-the-world way that I recognized from my own 20-something Lesbianhood. You were there with your lover and your dog "Ruby" and nothing in the world was more important than being young and cock-sure (ha) with your low- ( Read more... )

Our poor sweet kitty, not even a year old, is in the ground. The rain stopped and the sun came out long enough for her to enjoy her favorite spot on the front steps before I took her to the vet's office ( Read more... )

After Wizard of Oz, Randy and I left the girls here with their nana and went to the beach on Wednesday. Randy came back Thursday, I stayed, and he brought the whole gang back on Friday. We had a wonderful time ( Read more... )