Well. It's been a very long time and I have no excuses, except the standard my-life-is-a-mess bullshit that's been happening for the last sixteen months or so. In the interest of complete transparency, I've considered writing a blog post nearly every weekend since the Year of Our Lord 2023 began, and until I opened WordPress … Continue reading Hey. Hi. It’s Been Awhile.

Wishing a Happy Nevada Day to all my friends and readers, whether you are a Nevada native (like me!), or someone who has adopted this state as your own! For those who aren't familiar with Nevada Day, it's likely because you missed last year's Nevada Day post. Read that post if you want, but in … Continue reading Obligatory Nevada Day and NaNoWriMo Prep Post

RELEASE DAY IS IN TWO DAYS! It's been a long time coming and I'm beyond excited. I'm a self-published author, so I don't have the advantage of a publishing house marketing machine to help me sell books. Luckily, I came across this handy list just this week: Just kidding. Sort of. But there is a … Continue reading It’s Almost Here…

I KNOW. I know I said I was back to more regular posting, then disappeared. Again. But friends, everything is still so hard and the blog-post idea machine in my head just doesn't seem to be working the way it used to, and I don't want to launch into a post without an idea. We've … Continue reading A BIG Announcement…Plus Retreating, NaNoWriMo Prep, and Stupid Game Ads

Welcome back! That sentiment is more for me than it is for you, I assure you. When we last left our intrepid heroine (that's me, in case you were wondering), I had announced a hiatus from regular posting to this blog so I could get my shit together. Well, that hiatus lasted much longer than … Continue reading My Triumphant Return to Blogging (Maybe)!!

After my last post (yes, I know I missed another weekend. More on that in a second), I had a conversation with my son. That's not unusual; I talk to him nearly every day, even though he lives in another state (Confusion? Denial? Bliss? All of the above?). "I read your post, Mom," he said. … Continue reading A Programming Change…and a Surprise!

What do you call a writer who is not writing? That's not a riddle, but more a rhetorical question. The reason I ask is that I missed writing a post last week, and postponed this week's until today, and only because I have a veritable dearth of ideas that require memorialization in written form. I've … Continue reading I Skipped a Week. You Might Have Noticed. Or Not.

For most of today, I planned a post of random thoughts. But the more I considered those thoughts, the more I realized they weren't as random as I initially thought. Several times in this blog, I have alluded to how terrible the last six weeks of 2021 were for me and--by extension--my family. I'm still … Continue reading Learning to Make Lemonade

My son works in the restaurant biz and wasn’t able to come home for Christmas, but the kind family-owned business that employs him told him to come home on New Year’s Eve because of a family emergency (shockingly little information on that later). Of course, I missed him terribly, but having him back in the … Continue reading Read All the Instructions Before You Begin

I guess it's actually time to write another blog post, when what I really want to be doing right now is making oatmeal butterscotch cookies. Oh, well. Writing now, cookies later. 2021...was not a spectacular year, and the last six weeks were so colossally bad that I enter 2022 with no small amount of trepidation. … Continue reading Happy New Year?