I was born in Dallas, TX I grew half-way up on Long Island, NY. I wrote my first short story about a family of mice when I was 7. Purple is a way of life. I have CP. It’s not a BFD. But sometimes it sucks. I’m 36. And I’ve recently started to look my age. It’s kinda neat. When I was younger I wanted to act on TV just so I could forget my lines and end up on…
And so, Isla is nearly two. I’m finding this harder to deal with than last year. But I’m hoping she’ll let me share her cake. That’ll help, yeah? In related news, Neil and I recently celebrated three years of marriage with a seafood dinner and the same message he’s been writing in all my cards for nearly seven years. And just so he knows: You’re welcome, Dude. The pleasure (and heartburn) is all mine. In my absence from blogging, there’s…
1. Neil and I went furniture shopping in Inverness over the weekend. We decided on, and ordered stuff that does not come from Ikea. 1b. We only needed one do-over. 1c. We are still married. 2. We’re still not online in the house. Have been checking in at the library once a week, and today, I’m at Dad’s house. 3. This is me writing from my new laptop. Let’s call him Frank. Frank is good. Frank is productive. Frank is…
Part of the re-vamp of this blog will be me participating more regularly in memes, blog-hops and other social blogging projects that I like/make sense to me/want to share with others. One of those such things is Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and The Bookish. Today’s list is Resolutions for 2016. I prefer the term goals. Let’s call them goals. See, they’re trees, um, goals. And here they are with nifty categories. Writing Start/continue the journal/letters to Isla and…
Let’s say there’s a power-cut. In the middle of the day. This day is particularly overcast and spooky, with little or no natural light. You know, like April. You are either home from work or you don’t have a job outside of that home. The point is, apparently, you don’t have any juice inside it, either. Here’s what you might do: 1. Consider, for a moment, that you’ve finally done it. With the computer on, the music on and for…
