A Broken Laptop

The other night was a no-cooking night.  If I had my way, every night would be a no-cooking night, because I abhor cooking with the heat of a thousand burning suns.  Baking=Awesome,  Cooking=brainsuck.  So I walk into a restaurant and order something to go.  The girl was all, “It’ll take twenty minutes to cook,” and I [...]

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Ray Veen is the Anti-Me.  I don’t think that either he or I realized this, but it must be the case.  For a while I thought that Matt Betts was the Anti-Me, but it turns out that we’re almost disappointingly similar. If Matt and I were to meet up, we’d spend the time watching PG-13 [...]

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My daughter had a high fever last night.  I rocked her, bathed her, gave her water and children’s Tylenol, cuddled her, and sang to her until her fever broke at about 3:00 AM.  Then I went to bed. This morning I woke up with a headache that progressed to migraine status as the day went [...]

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It’s Vegas, Baby!  It’s KillerCon! I can’t tell you how excited I am to go.  It’s going to be the first of hopefully many more to come: KillerCon.  “Horror, thriller, and paranormal romance collides in this inaugural multi-genre writer’s convention. The First Annual Las Vegas KillerCon will take place September 17 through 20, 2009 at [...]

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Somebody just tap me on the shoulder and discreetly whisper that I’m losing my mind. I promise not to make a scene. Anyway, this week I’m working on a story about a woman named Violet who has…let’s just say “star issues”. I’m actually trying to write a serial in tweets, because it’s a challenge that [...]

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It’s time for a celebration!  Woo!  Why, you ask?  It’s because August means the beginning of a new writing year in our house. Summer is full of “Ack, both of the kids are home!” and “We are going to do family things, dagnabbit!” and “It’s too hot to go outside, so how about movie night…again?”  [...]

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  So this blog has had two themes lately: our separate worlds (writing/real life) and friends.  I confessed that I try to compartmentalize because I think it’s A Kind Thing to do for everybody, and I think life is about doing Kind Things.  I don’t want you guys to be uncomfortable.  I want you each [...]

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“Closing Time at the Shop of Dreams” went up at Six Sentences today.  You all know that I’m mad about ultra shorts.  I just confessed to Rob, the editor of 6S, that 6S has single-handedly done more to spark my imagination that any other magazine out there.  This little snippet will eventually become a longer [...]

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Screw my last post!  It’s totally not important.  What is  important is that The Pedestal Magazine ran “The Container of Sorrows” today.  This is one of the stories that is quite dear to me.  Please stop by and read it if you can.  You can find it at The Pedestal Magazine. Oh, and one more [...]

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