New Meaning to Red Eye
Note to self: Red means danger. Red means stop. Red means don’t-put-it-in-your-eye. I have the kind of contacts which soak overnight in a peroxide solution. They get nicely cleaned, and by morning...
View ArticleThree Weeks, and Gas K.O.
I feel rather like a puffer fish who’s taken in all the water/air he can absorb but must still absorb a bit more. I have three weeks of classwork left, during which time I’ll also take four of my last...
View ArticleInfinity Version Three
I’m cutting, expanding, editing and re-working three stories right now. All are being prepped for specific markets and have already been through a thousand and one edits, or so it feels. And let me...
View ArticleBailouts, Fed Up USA, and the Perspective of History
I’m a homeowner trying to sell my house at a bad time, a time when no one can get the credit to qualify for a loan, so you’d think I’d fall on the side of bailout bills and rescue plans. That would be...
View ArticleThe Other Side of the Storm
I know this is a Yahoo article, which would mean in the usual course that it was too public for me to blog. Why blog something everyone’s already seen? But this particular topic has been a pet peeve...
View ArticleHauling Away the Uhaul
Sadly, I did not get photos. You will all have to stretch your imagination tall and long in order to wrap it around the mental image of a 24 foot uhaul–backed into my driveway. Now, if said Uhaul had...
View ArticleBest and Worst Divided by Foldable Green
I’ve never actually watched the Emmy’s–nor the Oscar’s, for that matter–but I find it amusing to sometimes click over the red carpet pics and the lists of best and worst dressed. I find it...
View ArticleYou Might Be a Dork If…
You respond to a Craigslist ad, email the person on and off negotiating for the better part of a week, settle on acceptable terms, and then confess– That you live over an hour drive away from the...
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Almost a Headline
First, upon removing the bumper of our car to fix the damage done by the deer, they discovered that the car was in an accident at some time previous and was not fully repaired. Fortunately the...
View ArticleBooks, Kids, Parents and Graphic Content
A discussion about violence in fiction (specifically YA and Middle-grade) in the comments section of a post by agent Nathan Bransford has left me with the need toss my two cents out there. Perhaps...
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