DABWAHA and trash talking!

on March 14, 2011

Okay–I got the e-mail today, telling me that this book made it as a finalist at DABWAHA and, well, I’m jazzed. For those of you who have not heard of DABWAHA, the link to The Smart Bitches is right here. It’s a little like the Sweet 16 basketball tournament– first you fill out your brackets,… Read More


Life Without Time

on March 13, 2011

* I’m sort of simulblogging today– you’ll see why in a second, but I just ran out of time to do more than one blog post a day!!! It’s rough when you live your life without time:-) Okay, so yesterday I woke up in a panic, thinking it was my day to post at the… Read More


To Answer Knit-Tech’s Question…

on March 11, 2011

Time to breathe? I don’t. Unfortunately, I do seem to have time to eat. I always used to joke that if I ever got my dream to stay at home writing, someone would need a backhoe and a power winch to get me out of the house. Uhm, anyone know where we can rent a… Read More


Waiting for Waiting?

on March 9, 2011

Okay, I don’t know what’s wrong with blogger, but the damn thing seems to be freezing my computer–but only when I log onto MY page. Folks, speak up–if that big honkin’ picture of the happiness twins (otherwise known as my children beating the holy hell out of each other on a cliff) is freezing EVERYONE’S… Read More


Status Report

on March 6, 2011

* Writing —Yearning is selling okay– it will help, I think, when the book comes out at amazon.com and ARe–I’ll let you know what that happens. In the meantime, the link I just posted will get you to the Torquere website, and they have Kindle and Nook compatible formats available there. –Living Promises is COMPLETE…. Read More


Whaddya bring me, mommy?

on March 4, 2011

Not a damned thing. Okay– see, here’s the thing. I’ve had the chance to be at home recently, and much to my surprise… I’m okay at it. I knit, I play with Squish, we do workbook stuff, I write professionally, I take walks, I’m going back to the gym (long goddamned story on how that… Read More


At the Zoo

on March 1, 2011

I do believe it’s true… Are you looking at that sunshine in those pictures? The incandescent blue of a February sky? It was an awesome, amazing, lovely day at the zoo. I’m so glad we went. The unexplained teenager in the pictures is my daughter’s friend, Stivie (so we’ve got Steve the cat and Stivie… Read More


Small Humans

on February 27, 2011

Okay– I admit it. Today is all about Squish. It’s going to be short because we’re going to the zoo in San Francisco tomorrow (okay, why it’s tomorrow and not on Friday, when we had a monsoon until 11 a.m. but blue skies after that is sort of a story in it’s own, one in… Read More


Hasn’t it been a while since we had a random meme?

on February 25, 2011

Okay, so I spent the day with my kids, + two–and yes, I borrowed them from the neighbor. Poor baby– everyone send good thoughts to her, she’s having one motherfucker of a pregnancy. She can’t keep shit down, barely gets out of bed–anyway, she’s got a nine year old who was being home schooled, and… Read More


Gotta crawl, gotta crawl…

on February 22, 2011

I was sitting here, answering a friend’s e-mail, when suddenly my strong, beautiful, Chicken hauls off and whacks my shoulder with all of her considerable strength. “What in the FUCK?” “It was the world’s ugliest bug, mom! I had to kill it!” Now neither of us are usually the squeally girl type, but suddenly, she… Read More