Everyone asks their favorite writer – where do you get your inspiration? As a writer, my answer is always something along the line of this: life. Lame, I know, right? But it is true. Everything I see, I do, I experience, I hear. It can make…
Life
Nine-Eleven
This year, I feel unequal to the task of reflecting again on the pain and hope and terror and despair and patriotism and brotherly love and… and… everything. I don’t know why. I am not in a place in my life where looking back is healthy for me. Only forward. Ever onward.…
Proud Sister
I’ve always been the writer in the family. Always been the one with her nose in a book or her fingers flying across the keyboard. Always the one people expected to get published. And yet, my amazing, talented, beautiful, funny, and now, FIT as heck little…
Mo. Ti. Vated.
Working From Home. I’ve posted about it before; about its glories and its suckitude, the highs and the lows. I’ve babbled about how easily it is to end up going days without seeing anyone except my husband, and how much I sometimes miss the camaraderie (and easy advice) of…
Short Bus
I want to ride a short bus. Well, let me explain. I want to buy a short bus. I want to paint in Tangerine and Raspberry. Maybe with lovely Lime accents. I want to outfit the interior with comfy beds and a kitchenette.…
Here Comes The Bride, Part III
Ah, where was I when last I spoke of our magical wedding day? Mom, Mark, and I made it from the lovely suite to the venue. It is silly to say venue when in truth, it was a 30 by 20 room (if that) squished between the rental office’s…
Bloggity-Bloggity-Blog
I have a confession to make. I am not a good blogger. No really, I’m not. This ain’t my first rodeo, as they say. I think I talked about my history with blogging in another post, but no one read it so I guess it is…
Bad Friend
I’ve been accused once or twice in the distant past, of being a bad friend. I always met those comments with skepticism and derision. How could they call me – ME – a bad friend? Did I not sit for hours in the dark with one friend, waiting for…
And the EYES have it…
This is a gratuitous waste of cyberspace, but I found this GIF on Tumblr and though I could not find the original artist, I hope (since I make no money off this personal blog and I do not claim it as my own) they will not object to my sharing it here……
Felony Conviction
Recently, I was doing a Google search for someone I used to know. I did not find what I was looking for but my googling fingers would not quit. I did something scorned exes and brokenhearted lovers have been doing for a decade. I looked up my ex-fiancé. …