Chicks-n-Scratching

Dear God, where did 2010 go? This year sprouted feathers and flew! I cannot believe it is over already. I’m not ready for 2011. I’m not. I still have a submission in the polish stages I wanted to get out this year. That ain’t gonna happen.  I’m not sure whether my autumn was sucked away [...]

So my parents have this idea of retiring to Europe. It’s been pushed back a bit because my mom had a bad fall earlier this year and had to get a shoulder replacement – so they’re aiming at around a year from now. Which means I’ll have a fantastic built in excuse for running off [...]

Santa Chick, get it? Okay, bad joke. Anyway… I love Christmas. I do. But I confess I don’t love it as much as I used to. I still have 2 firm believers in the house so it isn’t that the Christmas magic is gone. It’s that it is a chore to do it sometimes. I [...]

Late again. Though not as late as last time. Tonight I took my Munchkin with me to give a review session for a class I teach. She totally charmed them. And gave most of them hugs as they left. One of the guys asked me if she goes up to random people and hugs them. [...]

I missed my blog date – I’ve been missing a lot of stuff lately. As I mentioned in a comment on Inez’s last post, I’m totally brain dead. I’ve been fighting off whatever the crud was/is, preparing for finals (giving, not taking), teaching, and supervising the installation of my new windows (hooray!). I’d probably be [...]

I am supposed to blog but now I sit here and stare at the computer screen in terror. What do I talk about?  I looked around my office for inspiration and thought, wow, I could write about dust and empty coffee cups but really, who wants to read that? I wandered to the kitchen and [...]

So, I’m currently impersonating the Little Mermaid. Or, well, I would be if I didn’t keep TRYING to talk. My voice cuts in and out, though when it’s there it sounds more like a frog on the verge of death. Oddly, this is not accompanied by any of the standard suspects – no fever, no [...]

Sleeping With The Wolf Maddy Barone ISBN 978-1-59578-777-4 Sterling Silver title Rising country music star Carla boards a plane in the year 2014. But it crashes in the future, fifty years after Armageddon has destroyed technology and plagues have reduced the female population to a precious few. She finds herself offered as prize in a [...]

Wahhooo!! I am getting old. That is not why I am cheering though( seriously do you think anyone would celebrate THAT?) But my birthday is on Thanksgiving this year. So I decided I am thankful for my readers and my writer friends. The two groups should meet. Since I can’t invite everyone over for coffee [...]

Okay, a recap of everything I am doing lately, which seems like way too much at time. 1) My damned dryer died. Dead. Doornail. Call the hearse. *sigh* So of course, Damien brought home a stomach bug and shared it. I am washing and hauling wet clothes from home to the laundromat. Fun…like a hernia. [...]