My life is currently a whirlwind of checklists and short-term tasks. "You don't seem to be having many wild adventures recently," someone said to me not all that long ago. "Oh, I'm having plenty of wild adventures," I said. "I just don't have time to write any of them down." Between website updates, revisions, business trips, kitten preparation ( Read more... )

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Would you like to stir up deeper and smarter intimacy? Are you interested in attracting good surprises that would air out your romantic dogmas? Do you think it might be fun to discover a new love secret? To encourage these happy developments, Capricorn, carry out the following assignments. First, practice loving ( Read more... )

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may find it hard to believe that imprecise language could undermine your ability to merge with your heart's desire. But it's true. Your biggest wish may never be fully granted as long as you're lazy or sloppy about how you articulate it. Try this: Write down a brief statement that crisply sums up the one experience ( Read more... )

Got woken up by cousins calling my phone at two in the morning, and again at three, four, and six-thirty. Nice people, some of us sleep. Please remember that, because some of us also hit. Hitting is much more fun for me than it is for you, at least when I'm the one doing it. So cut that out, if you would be so very kind, and spare my knuckles a ( Read more... )

1. Sent Tara the files she needs to finish my business cards ( Read more... )

So apparently, I've finally managed to discover my own overload point. Revising the fifth book in ten months (seriously, I've averaged finishing one book every two months since January) while prepping for OVFF and trying to wrangle website updates and album pre-orders? That is my overload point. I keep finding myself hitting the end of my to-do ( Read more... )

I've started doing the maintenance on my online songbook, which has been allowed to get a little dustier than I necessarily approve of. (In my defense, I've been busier than I can properly express in words.) So far, I've entered all songs from January 2008, and edited all songs beginning with the letter 'A' to make sure that they're, well, ( Read more... )

And now, it's time once more for the semi-regular breakdown of Absolutely Every Little Damn Thing that's going on with Red Roses and Dead Things, both track-by-track and not-quite-related-to-recording. Have you noticed that this happens every time I have a recording date? Anyway, some of these will just be statuses, for my information, while ( Read more... )

Remembering that I start my personal year with November first, because it amuses me to do so, here's my year so far.

November.
Nothing yet. Probably the standard Orphan's Thanksgiving, because we can, and because it's fun. Planned travel, none. Planned travel expenses, none.

December.Nothing yet. Given that Conflikt will be looming, I may ( Read more... )

These are the next five things that absolutely must happen for Red Roses and Dead Things, since they involve utilizing the time of remote performers ( Read more... )