It’s just another manic Monday
I wish it were a Sunday
‘Cause that’s my funday
My I don’t have to runday
It’s just another manic Monday
The weekend started off sucky, and it just carried on through to today. Granted, the girls and I had a good day away in the city, but I came home to misunderstandings and anger and stuff coming out of the walls that is better just left in.
The weekend was the weekend and it is what it is. At this point, what started off as an insult quickly turned …

Waiting has never been so awful and stress-inducing. I’d like to say labor was easier… but there are far too many people out there that would probably hurt me if I did.
The very first paperback Courting Morpheus to roll off the printer arrived yesterday. I hugged it and squeezed it and loved it and almost named it George. Then the girls took it away from me and put it somewhere safe, away from my crazed book-sniffing nose and spine-cracking hands. Today we show it off to family and …

Yesterday was clinic day here in town. I’d geared up for a fight, honestly, when I talked to the receptionist because she doesn’t usually take messages that involve the doc calling someone back, and I know damn well she doesn’t like making last-minute appointments. But, I demanded to have Dr. B. look into what was going on – it’s been just over six months (and three rounds of antibiotics) since Dr. B. was going to refer Care to an ENT doc in the city. Mid-September was when we first talked …

Lori Titus from Flashes in the Dark interviewed little ol’ me!
So swing on over there and check it out @ Flashes in the Dark

Ante Mortem – before death.
Life moves on, and in this day and age it moves on very quickly. We, as writers, move on quickly – if we get a rejection, we’ve almost always got another market to submit the story out again; if we see a contract die without notice from the publisher or editor of note, we move on.
Inspired by Joel Sutherland and Colleen Morris (expectant parents and editors of Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths) and an idea bandied out by Greg Hall and Doc Pus on the Funky …