Tag: life in general

  • A Pile of Buckets

    It’s been a more than year since I’ve really been able to write. It’s hard for me to believe that – for a number of years, I was chugging along at a reasonable clip at my writing. Not screaming fast, not even noticeably fast, but it was a steady pace. Stories were forming, plots were…

  • Summer is Coming…

    *hiding under the couch* No, seriously. That’s about how it feels. I have 7 year old twins. and now I’ll have 12 weeks with them at home in which I need to entertain them in some fashion other than the TV, because the husband refuses to do day care. Not that it will affect my…

  • Writing Hormones

    Is it bad that you would rather have your children interrupt you while you’re having an intimate moment with your spouse than interrupt you while you’re writing? I am convinced that writers exude work-related pheromones. Much like the pheromones that pour off adults when they’re getting intimate that immediately inspire the baby to cry, these…

  • The Constant Juggle

    My daughter found out I’d taught myself to juggle 20 years back and now wants me to teach her. I’m having to re-learn myself. I wasn’t a master at it, but I could do a few tosses before I lost the groove. Then things happened – you know, college, work, being dumb with your friends…

  • 40

    I’m newly 40. I think the culturally accepted response for Western women when confronted by this number is to freak out. But I don’t feel this way, truth be told. The thing is, I look around at everyone else (Don’t you roll your eyes and sigh at me, young man! You do it, too!), like…

  • A new year, a new list

    Of course everyone has their resolution list. Do this, stop doing that, be better, go here, save there, etcetera ad nauseum. So I thought I’d let you in on mine.     BWAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! Ohhhh… ouch. Ohhh, I think I pulled something… I’ve got to stop telling jokes like that. I’ll give myself a hernia if…