I’m writing this from a round hotel in Houston with a view of the runway and the monorail thingamajig (my son is in heaven). We’ve survived the first leg of our trip — the three-hour drive from Austin. But starting tomorrow at 7 (a.m.), we’ll have three long flights to go. In [...]

I just realized tonight that next Thursday, I’m going to be on a plane to Alaska. To spend a week on a smallish boat with my two children, five of my nieces and nephews, my husband, my sister-in-law, and my mother- and father-in-law. Oh, and the crew.
Of course, my thoughtful friends and acquaintances [...]

Although I tried — and abandoned — knitting a few years back (it gave me carpal tunnel syndrome and eye strain, neither of which were conducive to writing), I found myself looking for something mindless and soothing to do recently, and decided to give it a try again.
So I went to a yarn store, bought [...]

So in case you were wondering, last Thursday, in lieu of posting, I packed my entire family up for an almost-week-long trip, took a bunch of relatives out to dinner, and got some words written on the WIP.
(These summer months are a real challenge for me, btw, so if I miss a posting from time [...]

…because although I’m usually something of a postaholic, I seem to be taking a break this last few weeks. This could, of course, have something to do with the fact that my children are out of school and that my time has been rather drastically curtailed. So if I’m a bit slow on [...]

So yesterday morning, I loaded the kids into the car, grabbed my tennis shoes from the front porch, and tossed them on the floor of the car along with my laptop. I then carted everyone off to their respective schools/camps before repairing to my local coffee haunt to outline — if you can call [...]

I don’t know about you, but my house is not like the ones you see in the magazines. And not just because I’m anything but a crack decorator.
It’s because I am… just maybe… a tad untidy.
That’s not to say that things are dirty — I always clean up the dishes and wipe things down [...]

So, I was reading Diana’s post about that four-letter word (the one that starts with ‘d’), and it got me to thinking.
I’ve never smoked, except for a few awful unfiltered things in Germany a long time ago. I don’t have the stomach to do any serious drinking. And drugs were always too scary.
But [...]

is bearing down on me like a freight train.
Is it just me? Where did the school year go? How the heck did it get to be May?
And whose brilliant idea was it to jam an entire year’s worth of activities into one month, then follow it with a desert of three school-less months where everything [...]

So, here it is, 10:48 on a Thursday night.  My bags are packed (I barely unpacked from RT last week), I’m checking my e-mail…. and suddenly I realize it’s Thursday.
My Cozy Chicks day!
Unfortunately, this realization hit me exactly 7 hours before I have to wake up.  (Early flight to D.C.)  So I’m just going to [...]