Ramblings

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

I figured I’d share some of the marvel of springtime at the farm! Fair warning – LOTS of pictures! Big versions!

As a result of the dental surgery I had about a month ago, my system got really out of whack. It took about a week and a half of lots of veggies and very few carbs before I reset and felt normal again. (Kind of strange, waking up one morning and realizing that while before,

Adventures in Marathoning   I’ve been at a writing marathon this last week. This is the third one I’ve gone to. I thought I’d post about some of the things I’ve noticed that may of interest to some of you.   For the first two marathons, I had chosen to write books that were the

First of all, THANK YOU to all who bought the bundle and decided to go ahead and get the BOGO. I truly appreciate your support. Wow. Next: a quick health update. I’m back on solid food, which OMG YAY!! SALADS!!! But  – I’m still recovering from not eating right. I’m still waking up every morning