Sort of. First of all, thank you, everybody, for the hugs and good wishes. I was trying to be very grown-up about the whole thing–turns out, I was just too tired to recognize that we’re all little kids, even when we’re forty-two. Anyway, that’s another blogpost, today’s will be quick and simple and hit on… Read More

Honestly, at about seven o’clock this evening, I was thinking about blogging, and I was all for it! I had a lot to talk about– I mean, here’s a partial list: * Zoomboy’s Open House * What Squish yelled at her sister yesterday (“Stop saying ‘douchebag!”) * A few students I’m going to sincerely miss… Read More

Is right here, and it’s out on June 16th. I have always loved fairy tales, and I am so damned proud of this story. Damn. Just. Just Damn.

I used to think that punctuation was THE most boring part of writing. A comma? Who cared. A period? The difference was? Of course, then I put out three books with a punctuation glitch, and suddenly, punctuation was no longer boring. Suddenly it was a big, scaly, venomous monkey on my back who kept stuffing… Read More

Actually, literally. Big T’s high school put on a lovely production of ‘The Wizard of Oz’. T’s film club had been filming a documentary of the rehearsals, and so he REALLY wanted his family to see the play, so we did. I was going to tell you that the Wicked Witch stole the show, but… Read More

I am SO in love. And this takes some time to load, but that’ll give you time to find something to bite, So you don’t choke on your tongues! (One of my students showed me how to find this site. I l-o-v-e him!)

Okay– see, the thing is, I’ve got a meeting with my boss tomorrow. Now the last time I had one of these, it threw me into a week long depression. I was told that our demographic completely changed, and yet our falling test scores were still all my fault. I was told that I needed… Read More

Okay, folks, I’ve been promising Jack and Teague this summer, and I just came to the realization that even though I will probably have the final installment done by July, I won’t be able to get the whole thing out until September, at the earliest, and this depresses me. However, since the reasons for this… Read More

* A chance to sleep in. * A scroll with a vase of flowers made of handprints from a six year old with REALLY BIG hands! * Cookies for breakfast! * A four year old who wanted to give me a pretty pretty vase of flowers. * A card with a magnetic ‘mood indicator’–one that… Read More

So, I’ve been working this month on a WIP that wasn’t dragon ridden. I thought I’d get a jump on that fucker, you see, and work steadily on something I liked but didn’t grab me by the throat. But… but… I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t grab me by the throat? What was I… Read More