A moment of silence for Chicken’s 2001 Chevy Impala, everybody. She’s dead, Jim.  Got a call from Chicken, right as I wrapped up my morning walk–the car had simply ceased to operate. There was the sound of rocks, and car no-go. I went to pick her up form a less-than-savory stretch of Manzanita Blvd, where… Read More

*whew*  We made it to February! Okay– we made it to mid-February, but in my defense, I was away from home.   Anyway– it’s a brief (but powerful!) Kermit Flail today– I didn’t give people much warning, but the extraordinarily lovely Ms. Devon Rhodes and the ever amazing Rick R. Reed came through, and we’ve… Read More

Wow. I’m saying– that round of the sickness SUCKED. The last time I felt that gross, I wrote the scene in Winter Ball where Skipper coughed so hard on the soccer field that he threw up. Just saying. Now you know where the real comes from, right? Anyway… So, Kermit Flail is tomorrow morning, and… Read More

The clerk at Michael’s, the clerk at Rite-Aid, and the kid at Del Taco all call you “hon”… Your friend tells you a miracle cure for the crud and you cry because it means you have to go to Rite-Aid again… The dogs follow you around the house to sit on your feet… You warn… Read More

So, my trip home required four airports, three planes, and about a zillion human contacts. At one point, I was so hungry I almost got lost in O’Hare, and I vaguely remember begging a Starbucks clerk to give me a sandwich unheated, because if I didn’t eat A THING I would be doomed to wandering… Read More

*  On Saturday, during the book signing, I got two text messages from Chicken. 1.  “There was a small fire in the kitchen today. The funniest part was looking at Dad as if to say, ‘There, there is a fire. What now?’” 2. “OMG I SAW MY LITTLE BROTHER NAKED AND I’M SCARRED FOR THE… Read More

This first picture is the Florida skyway– it is notable because it’s the bridge Tory fell from in Black John.   BTW– Tory is an asshole. The second picture is of poisonous snakes in Florida. What’s notable about this is that it’s at a restroom in Florida– so yanno.. Watch out for poisonous snakes! The… Read More

Okay, so I’ve been known to terrify people with my agendas.  You’ve seen them– what I do during the day, and it’s usually exhausting? Well, yesterday we went to a knitting workshop on color work with the amazing Franklin Habit, and we had the best fun!!  I learned a few things (speed swatching, garter jacquard–… Read More

Okay– so, it’s dumb. I was getting ready to fold clothes–and there’s ALWAYS a LOT of clothes. I used to call it the laundry monster, remember? We’d pull clothes out of the clean pile and wear them and feed them to the dirty pile and repeat the process? Well, anyway– trying to catch up with… Read More

So, I leave in two days, and I’m behind deadline and I’m a little sick and I’ve got a dozen things todo and whine whine whine whine who cares. Mostly, I had a normal day, and the most exceptional thing was that I got to talk to Aila, my aqua instructor, whom I haven’t seen… Read More