Flying Sperm and Floaters

Flying Sperm!
Okay, this is not really my story to tell, but it is on my mind almost daily, so here goes.
My mother attended an all-girls Catholic high school. One of the mousiest, most nervous and awkward nuns was assigned the unwelcome duty of providing sex education.
This nun decided that to minimize embarrassment, she would place [...]

Helpful Mousekeeping Tip

An internet friend of mine recently shared the story of how her sister rescued a mouse from a glue trap.  The story is not really mine to tell, but I wanted to give you this important bit of information:
“It’s harder than you think to wash a mouse.”
Good to get that fact out to the general [...]

This is What Happens When I’m Not Busy With Editing…

Since I first started writing The Edge of Memory in October, I have spent virtually every minute I’m alone in the car working on it in my head. I commute 75 minutes each way. So that’s a lot of time.
But I think I’m really done now with editing, until/unless an agent or editor [...]

The Unexpected Effects of LASIK

Back in December, you may remember that I had LASIK surgery.
I’m still loving it.
There are unexpected pros and cons, though.  Most of them occurring in the shower.  My myopic peeps will appreciate.
Unexpected Con:  My backside is no longer the vague shape I’ve been lathering up for the last 25 years or so since I first [...]

We Are Not Amused. Oh, no… wait… we totally are.

Things that amused me in the last week:

An eight-year-old boy in a basketball jersery seriously rocking out to Donna Summer’s “On the Radio” at our local pizza parlor. Head bobbing, palms slapping the vinyl booth seat– totally into it.
A new restaurant called “The View” which faces a busy street and backs up to a [...]

Mommy Deerest or How NOT to Report an Emergency

Last night I officially had the crap scared out of me. I was working a shift when I received a call from my father.
“Your mother’s been in an accident,” he said. “She hit a deer. She’s bleeding but she doesn’t know from where.”
Needless to say, I was careening towards full-blown panic. I [...]

Minor Housekeeping Post

I have updated the crap out of my blogroll. Links galore!

Have We Come Full Circle With Weather Forecasts?

I’m thirty-something.  When I was a kid, we took it for granted that the weather forecast was a guess.  Often, not even a best guess.
Like Marty McFly said in Back to the Future, “Since when can weathermen predict the weather, let alone the future?”
Well, since the ’90’s really.  Sometime during high school/college the weathermen started [...]

A Random Sort of Posting…

I do most of my creative thinking in my car when I’m commuting.  The rest of my life is just packed with too many distractions.
Lately, having plateaued on edits for The Edge of Memory, and patiently waiting for partials to be reviewed, I’ve been spending time thinking about my next novel, which will be more [...]