In July, my husband and I celebrate a couple of different anniversaries. It’s our wedding anniversary, as well as the anniversary of when we reconnected. (Quick recap for those playing at home: he and I met ten years ago, dated a while, then it fizzled out. Five years later, we reconnected, and were engaged nine […]

It’s been 101 days since my last migraine. Wow. I’ve had a bunch of headaches the last couple of weeks. Very few of them were bad enough to affect the writing. They’re mainly caused by heat. I don’t do well in this sort of really hot weather. And where we are is hotter than Seattle

Quick health check in–I’ve been okay this week, a little headachy, sometimes due to heat, sometimes due to my own stubbornness. But all in all, things are good. I’m happy, and writing a lot. Spring is just about over, and summer is starting–possibly as soon as this week. There are a LOT of things growing

First a quick health check in. I had a stomach flu last week. It only lasted one day with my husband, but mine appeared to last two days. It wasn’t until my period suddenly showed up, a day early, that I realized that part of why I felt so lousy that second day of the

Harlan Ellison has passed. Makes me very sad. He was incredibly influential for me as a writer. I collected and read all of his short fiction. I remember many of the stories vividly, still. I only “met” Harlan once. He was the GoH at Foolscap in 2005. I was late to the con, to his

A few years make. This past weekend was CampCon. Basically, it’s a group of writers who get together and go camping for the weekend, in Oregon, near Mount Hood. The camp is divided into two parts. On the one side, the organizer has been bringing a generator. That side gets set up with canopy, tables,

Last week, I continued to focus on my writing. The bad news is that I didn’t make my word count goal, which is 21K words, or basically 3000 words per day, seven days a week. The good news is that I still wrote a little over 18K, which means an average of 2600 words per

What’s on my mind?   Dirt!   We had seven yards of dirt delivered. My sweetie has been doing the lion’s share of the work, but I’ve been moving the dirt as well.   The basic drill: Load up the little wagon with dirt, drag it over to the side yard, dump it out, smooth

Last week was a difficult week in many ways. I ended up being sick every other day. Sunday I came down with a cold-like thing. Tuesday was the first day of my cycle, and I felt like crap all day long. Thursday something was blooming and I spent the day in a daze, unable to

Last week, my sweetie came down with something. Left him with a sore throat, slightly congested, and tired. It was only a day or so before he got back at it. Minor summer cold. Since it had been a week, I’d kind of thought I’d managed to avoid it. Nope. Came down with something very