Over a month since I was here…geez. I’ll eventually get back to steady posting, but in the meantime, I thought since this was in my head and I wanted to share, I should get it up now-ish.

Yesterday, I sent a message to Doc Pus at Library of Horror, asking some advice on what to do about the Dead Bells anthology. It’s been just over two years in the process… and with everything that has gone on in the last several months, and with Doc as well, not just me… we decided to let it go.

I want to thank everyone that’s expressed concern and good wishes and all over the past several weeks/two months. It’s meant a lot to me to know ya’ll are out there… and honestly a handful of you have moved me to tears of happy (which is a change from the frustration).

May was not as good as April, believe it or not. And it was awkwardly kinda creepy as well. I’m feeling a bit thumped on, to be honest, and I feel I’ve probably been taking it out on folks, either by being silent, or by snarking. Either way, I’m sorry – this weekend is meant to relax, and then back at it with a smile on Monday. So look at this beautiful girl and tell me she’s not the cutest grad you’ve seen this year:

It’s hard for me to believe that the first week of May has already gone by. The past several weeks have been nothing short of mentally excruciating, at times feeling very much like things would never work out, would never complete, would never… just anything.
But let me just say we made it through our no-red-meat effort. We celebrated with homemade hamburgers done in Care’s convection oven, and this week we had the eye of round that had been waiting patiently for us to do it up. Almost four full days …