Cursing the Weather

With apologies to those of you who do not approve of swear words. Holy fucksticks. This expression has been uttered by my more times than I’d care to admit. I’m not sure exactly where it came from. I don’t know if I heard it somewhere and adopted it or if it just came to me, […]

Monday Morning This and That

-I continue to do battle with Windows. Each night, my computer automatically installs that one critical update that borks my fonts; each morning, I uninstall it. Hey, Microsoft, I want this update! I believe in your updates! Just give me one that doesn’t make my documents an unreadable mess–I’ve got that part taken care of! […]

Curse You, Windows Update!

A couple nights ago I set one of my anti-malware programs loose on my computer before I went to bed. I wasn’t having any particular problems, but it had been a while, and it’s always a good idea to do this. In the morning I expected to find the scan results; instead, I found my […]

Musical Monday: The Blues Brothers

Funny how life works. For reasons unknown to me, I found myself thinking of The Blues Brothers–the actual musical act, not the movie; I’ve never seen the movie–yesterday morning while scraping snow off my driveway. I was thinking how at first it seemed like a novelty, a gag for Saturday Night Live like John Belushi’s […]

How I Met My Agent

As I mentioned last week (or maybe it was Monday, which would make it this week), January saw the anniversary of me becoming an agented writer, as it was late last January where I signed on the dotted line with Carrie Pestritto at Prospect Agency. I have very much enjoyed working with Carrie thus far […]

This And That

Coming to you live from the snow-covered hills of upstate New York…. -A lot of second-guessing over Pete Carroll’s decision to throw on 2nd down from the 1 yard line with 2 time outs. Interestingly, no one is second-guessing his decision to throw for the end zone with 10 seconds left and no time outs […]

On Full Disclosure

This posting on Friday night thing, it’s got to stop. Which means I need to be prepared ahead of time, because the Catbird’s “be in school at 7 on Fridays” isn’t stopping anytime soon (and I know, as much as I grumble, I’ll miss it next year when she’s in college). I just don’t like […]

Someone Help Me!

I haven’t been able to get Mason’s Children out of my head since Friday! Maybe that explains why I was in such a low mood yesterday. I need an earworm. Nothing really for me to say or do today. My organization sponsored a five mile hike (round trip) to a bog on top of a […]

Mason’s Children

First order of business: if you have a query that needs critting, get thee on over to Agent Carrie’s blog, where you could get your query critted by an agent who knows her stuff, AND you could get your first 100 pages critted. Go, go! Now on to the matter at hand. If you don’t […]

Monday? Monday.

Wow, here it is, Monday already and I feel like I just did this. That’s what happens when you get off schedule, I guess. This will be one of those disorganized posts, random collections of musings and all that sort of stuff. -I’m need of more coffee right about now. -Was back at my writing […]