A Broken Laptop

Whew!  I have to say that I’m feeling much better today.  I watched Nina like a…I was going to say “rabid hawk”, but I really don’t think that I’ve heard of a rabid bird.  Anyway, she didn’t have another seizure, and the doctors say that everything looks fine, so I’m hoping against hope that it’s [...]

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Matt Betts and I are having a challenge to see who can qualify as an active member of the HWA first. Why? Because we wanna. And it’s always much more fun to do something like this with somebody…or against somebody. Our contest officially begins today, and I was going to have a huge “Are you [...]

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Yesterday was the 5k race through the Mojave desert, and man, was it difficult!  My body couldn’t take it, and yours truly is suffering the after effects of heat exhaustion.   I spent half of the day in bed, alternating between sleeping and watching “My Left Eye Sees Ghosts.”  Which is what people with heat exhaustion tend to [...]

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I… went sailing over a meadow on a zip line spent two and a half hours standing in the rain while trying to tarp everything down taught people how to make Wint-o-Mints spark in the dark scared little girls with classic urban legends just spent four days at camp with 14 angsty teenage girls am [...]

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So I’m pretty excited bout that partial request.  I feel like dreams are being realized.  But who do you tell your good news to? My husband is really supportive, even though he doesn’t like a lot of my work.  He doesn’t like darkness or despair in any form, and he doesn’t care for the “black” [...]

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So I received a reply to my query letter yesterday.  It was all, “Thank you for sending your query…” and I was ready to hit the delete key with practiced finesse when something about it caught my eye.  I read the thing a little more carefully.  A partial?  She wanted to see a partial? Really?! [...]

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I was so yippee-ki-yay about my Tweet the Meat going up yesterday that I failed to notice that my optimistic twitter-story went up on @outshine as well.  Check it out if you have a chance.  I rather like it.

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So a few months ago Jameson T. Caine tagged me in a meme where you shared ten true things about yourself.  I love to read memes like that, but I put this on the back burner and forgot about it.  Today’s the day! Ten True Things About Me 1.   I started seriously submitting stories in March of 2008.  [...]

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My tweet went up tonight. You can check it out here.  I love reading these!   UPDATE: Cate’s absolutely right, and you can’t open the second one up from there.  Here’s another link.  http://twitter.com/tweetthemeat

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