One of my co-workers is going through his third bout with leukemia. There's a newly approved medication they're giving him, but he needs a bone marrow transplant. So, this post is going to serve two purposes. First, it's a prayer request. Second, it's a call to action.

The National Bone Marrow Donor Registry is the type matching clearing house for ( Read more... )

Sorry about the delay in posting Part Three. We've had some pretty hectic weeks here. (More on that in subsequent posts.)

( Day Three (Rising Geekdom! Oh, and droids as promised.) )

Saturday

After seeing all the great costumes from Friday, I decided I was going to dress up as well. I also convinced Joy to wear her dress for the Geek Prom all day, rather than try to figure out someplace to store it and changing later. I borrowed one of the little one's stuffed animals to make my costume more recognizable. I'd say my costume went ( Read more... )

What do you get when you take comic books, science fiction, fantasy, anime, costumes, and games and cram them all into one space for a weekend? You get three days in Geekdom Heaven. (Four if you count Thursday night.) For the clueless among you, this Memorial Day weekend was Phoenix Comicon and Joy, Michael, Jacob and I jumped into our natural ( Read more... )

I've started working on the outline for Squirrel's Run. There are still many details to work out, but I know the basic story I want to tell, and I've got a pretty good feel for my main character.

I finished the edit pass for Oak, Ash, and Lilac a few days later than I'd hoped, but it got done. I've been compiling a list of agents to query for it. As ( Read more... )

I'm chugging along on edits for OAL and the whole thing comes to a screeching halt as one character gives a geography lesson.

Ah. No.

Gabby, I know you're trying to keep him talking, but let's find another subject to make chit chat on, shall we?

Kedric, Dude. Seriously. You have a pretty girl all to yourself and you're describing your country's ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were talking about everything going on in the Middle East. It became clear to me pretty quick he was anxious and worried - start of Armageddon, end of the world,  see the banana  worried. (That last one will make sense if you look at my userpic here on LJ.) He seemed surprised I didn't share his concern. ( Read more... )

You would think after five years, I wouldn't find much in the first chapter of Oak, Ash, and Lilac to tweak. Except, I have. A few word choices here, a tense issue there. I doubt any writer ever truly stops tinkering with their work - until it's published and then it's a little hard to go back and fix something. Honestly, I'm still unhappy with the ( Read more... )

So, sometime last year, I mentioned blogging about Chloe, our sometimes cat.

One evening in 2009, Joy called me into the living room, telling me we had a problem. Said problem was a very large cat who'd just wandered out of our bedroom. My first thought was: "But we don't HAVE a cat." The second was: "How'd it get in?"

The bathtub in our master bath ( Read more... )

Well, of the goals I set for last year, I only accomplished 2 1/4 of them. I reorganized the library, turning it into what my wife calls "the most comfortable room in the house." I read one book on Rockefeller. (I was supposed to read three.) And I read eleven books by authors I'd never read before. (The goal was twelve - one for each month of the ( Read more... )