This one breaks my heart. Apparently they picked up two heartbeats on the ultrasound, but never heard the third. Whether or not the baby has passed on or was merely hiding…well, I don’t know. I won’t know until the 19th. It’s killing me a little. It’s funny how we’ve known about the three babes for about 24 hours, but I’m … Read More
SURPRISE!!
I wrote a post a few weeks ago celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. I’d been feeling a bit unwell lately, so imagine my darling husband’s surprise when, after our anniversary dinner, I shouted “SURPRISE!” and announced that I’d just discovered that we were having our third child. How wonderful! How unexpected! A surprise indeed. Then we were robbed ten days later. … Read More
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman
SHOES HAIR NAILS by Deborah Batterman is an evocative short story collection laced with truth and a touch of sorrow. Batterman’s book is an intricately woven work of stunning depth. It’s full of diverse characters with universal challenges, and the “it is what it is” way that they accept their realities is honest and true to life. I found myself … Read More
WIP Wednesday: I Am A Bear
The Williams Project is going well. I spent some time this week wandering around the empty wasteland of personal memoirs, looking around to see what does and doesn’t appeal to me. I’m struggling a bit with the layout of the Project. I’m a very free-spirited writer. I outline extremely loosely if at all. (In fact, somebody just called my outlining technique … Read More
Welcome To The Apocalypse. Enjoy Your Stay Here.
It is snowing in Las Vegas. Real, stick-t0-the-ground, the-kids-are-baffled snow. It’s beautiful and we spent the morning playing in it before Real Life called. Now I know that this isn’t the Snowpocalypse that most of us are used to (I practically learned how to shovel the driveways before I could walk) but it’s pretty unusual here. I take this as … Read More
In Which I Discover That We’ve Been Robbed
We packed up the car and headed to my parent’s house for the holidays. We had everything that was really important with us: the family, my laptop, the kids’ medicine. It was a good thing, too, because our home was broken into on Christmas Eve, and we were robbed. Our neighbor, who knew that we were out of town, saw … Read More
A Krampus Christmas
Trust Battle Bunny, aka Ryan Bridger from my writer’s group, to introduce me to the most horrifying holiday myth that I have ever heard of. Read his super cool, ultra-violent Christmas story, “A Krampus Christmas” and then curl up on your side and weep. You’ll never look at Santa the same way again.
There Is No Hope For Me.
Even when I try to be good and kick violence and evil in the face, the Universe is out to thwart me. It’s hopeless.
Choppity Chop Chop: Manuscripts and Haircuts.
I am taking an axe to my hair. Well, I’m actually going to find a stylist to take scissors to it, but the end result shall be about a foot and a half of black hair on the salon floor. I’ve had the same hair for about two years now, which is some kind of record for me. I’m ready … Read More
The Best Part of Marrying Young…
…is that you get to grow up together. We met when I was barely 20 years old. He was 21, and had been back in America for two weeks after living in the Baltics for the last couple of years. He spoke Russian and sometimes had to search in order to find the correct word in English. I fell … Read More