There are so many things I want to do in this world. Yes, the big things, like buy a house and have a baby; raise that child and get another dog. Love my husband until we die, old and content with the life we built. Write novels and publish…

There are so many things I want to do in this world. Yes, the big things, like buy a house and have a baby; raise that child and get another dog. Love my husband until we die, old and content with the life we built. Write novels and publish…
For those of you who follow this blog (and, bless your little heart for that!), you may remember the horrible thing that happened to Mark & I a few weeks ago. It STUNK and we were dreading the clean-up. Well, we dreaded it with good reason because Holy Mother…
Today’s snippet, titled “Terrible, No Good, Very Bad, Horrible Idea”, is a piece I wrote about my PC in Mark’s evil Pathfinder Campaign. Be forewarned, there are mature themes and naughty language below. – – – – – – – – – – – “Trust, huh?”…
A hundred years ago, and I say this with only anecdotal information so I am probably utterly mistaken, getting knocked up was easier. You got married (or not), had sex, and *boom* a kid was born. Now, naturally, not every single sex act results in a child, and some…
I have twinges. Twinges of guilt, twinges of fear, twinges of regret. Twinges in my heart. Not my metaphorical heart, my literal, physical heart. I am too young to die. But of course, that’s silly. People die…
Today’s snippet, titled “Nothing, Anymore”, is a piece I wrote about a PC in Mark’s Evil Pathfinder Campaign. Be forewarned, there are mature themes and naughty language below. – – – – – – – – – – – A black spirit, thick and oily and…
I have been a fat chick as long as I can remember. And I have always railed against the stereotype that fat people are just lazy slobs. Too undisciplined to be anything but that – fat. I always worked hard. I’ve always taken initiative at my…
…sometimes, life is pretty stinky. Like when you have a few hundred bucks of frozen meat in a chest freezer and there is a really brief power outage and then two weeks later, you can’t figure out what that weird smell is and you start to panic that the…
Today’s snippet, titled “Break Enchantment”, is a piece I wrote about a PC in Mark’s Evil Pathfinder Campaign. Be forewarned, there are mature themes and naughty language below. – – – – – – – – – – – When she closed her eyes, she could…
Whatever is a writer to do when she hasn’t had time to read other books? Make time. Reading is an integral part of writing, don’t you think? I mean, seeing how others approach problems and plots makes me think harder about how I approach them in…