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Yesterday was the 5k race through the Mojave desert, and man, was it difficult!  My body couldn’t take it, and yours truly is suffering the after effects of heat exhaustion.   I spent half of the day in bed, alternating between sleeping and watching “My Left Eye Sees Ghosts.”  Which is what people with heat exhaustion tend to do, you know.  The good … Read More

I… went sailing over a meadow on a zip line spent two and a half hours standing in the rain while trying to tarp everything down taught people how to make Wint-o-Mints spark in the dark scared little girls with classic urban legends just spent four days at camp with 14 angsty teenage girls am sunburned and still smell like … Read More

So I’m pretty excited bout that partial request.  I feel like dreams are being realized.  But who do you tell your good news to? My husband is really supportive, even though he doesn’t like a lot of my work.  He doesn’t like darkness or despair in any form, and he doesn’t care for the “black” in my black humor.  He … Read More

So I received a reply to my query letter yesterday.  It was all, “Thank you for sending your query…” and I was ready to hit the delete key with practiced finesse when something about it caught my eye.  I read the thing a little more carefully.  A partial?  She wanted to see a partial? Really?! And I was happy.  I’m … Read More

I was so yippee-ki-yay about my Tweet the Meat going up yesterday that I failed to notice that my optimistic twitter-story went up on @outshine as well.  Check it out if you have a chance.  I rather like it.

So a few months ago Jameson T. Caine tagged me in a meme where you shared ten true things about yourself.  I love to read memes like that, but I put this on the back burner and forgot about it.  Today’s the day! Ten True Things About Me 1.   I started seriously submitting stories in March of 2008.  I still have absolutely no … Read More

My tweet went up tonight. You can check it out here.  I love reading these!   UPDATE: Cate’s absolutely right, and you can’t open the second one up from there.  Here’s another link.  http://twitter.com/tweetthemeat

I had just poured myself a glass of Coke Zero, booted up my computer, and flexed my hands over the keyboard.  Could I recapture last night’s magic?  Could I finish this story tonight?  It’s been a busy day full of family and a comedy of errors.  Could I put all of that aside? Then the phone rang, and it was … Read More

You know that delicious feeling when everything in the cosmos has come together?  You read/watched/thought of something that catches your fancy, and suddenly the planets align in such a way that you slide easily into that writing groove?  It’s an out of body experience.  It’s magic.  I’m listening to Sufjan Stevens’ “Greetings from Michigan-The Great Lakes State” album, my son … Read More