Friday, October 30, 2009
I love halloween!
Yesterday it started to rain before I could get to the store for treats. And before I could get at the fallen leaves. It rained all day. It rained all night. Most of the leaves are down now, inches deep on the lawn which has stayed green all summer because we've had so much darn rain. Kids can...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
I found a home on the internet...
Sometimes Blogit is just one big delicious potluck where we all bring our bits to share with everyone. There's this coming home feeling when I read some of the amazing comments on my own blog. And I get so much from the blogs of others. Sometimes we mess up, act like brats, squabble and demand...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Home's in the eye of the beholder
For years I’d thought about going to the citiest of cities, New York. I wanted to see Brooklyn for myself, and Greenwich Village, the very heart of avant garde culture. But then the planes hit the World Trade Center towers and put a stop to my yearning. I could be perfectly happy right there in...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What's your game?
I had coffee with June and Jean at Mickey D's yesterday. It may just be the last time I'll do that, at least with June. I won't repeat June's whole conversation, but it was disturbing. Some of it (as always) I've heard a million times before. But some of it was new: outrageous and hateful. Jean and...
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Show us your shorts...
No, it's not an indecent proposal. It's an invitation from the Writer's Digest to enter a short story (1500 words or less) in their annual short fiction contest. Deadline is Dec. 1. Since I'll be busy with Herb & Louise and the kids throughout November, I'm afraid if I don't enter before NaNoWriMo,...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
P.S.
Checked in with my sister. She's doing fine -- will find out the results of the biopsy on Wed. And she got the birthday card! Woo! Hoo!
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Excerpt from Waking the Zombies: two characters you haven't met
Colton Winfield had been planted in the Attorney General’s office while the ink was still wet on his law degree. This was on the recommendation of Derek King, CEO of WhiteEarth International. Winfield was fired when they caught him emailing confidential case information to Albeit. Matt Nichols of...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Some of the new stuff from WTZ...
fyi -- Joe Alvarez has not returned from Fairfax, VA, “the belly of the beast” where Albeit’s CEO (Matt Nichols) gave him a personal tour of the facility and an overview of the defense contractor’s power and mission. What he learned scared hell out of Joe. He disappears after George Finn, security...
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Waking the Zombies...
Last year's NaNo effort was a sequel to the book that bloomed in '07. It's better than the first, more developed, but I've been kind of walking wounded, creatively. As I got started on the editing-revising process I ran into my old friend Ms. Block. Writer's Block. The story just curled up in fetal...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Something Elinjo said made me think of this...
I wrote it in the busy days, when the kids were little and the chores endless. JUST SITTING... When the time has come as the earth rolls on through cosmic dust and endless space, for me to leave the busyness of life for a solitary resting place, just leave my bones beneath a tree out in the open,...
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