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24 August 2019

Beams of Heaven, As She Goes

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Hoyt and Martha Allen, circa 1970. "I’ve always loved this picture of my parents. The looks of joy and happiness on their faces is ...
23 August 2019

And another hot minute passes...

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Wild Horses Statue, Providence, RI Right, so where was I? Ciaragh was back, I was done with GARF, and life was settling down so I could ...
24 May 2019

My Little Irish Wanderer...and the Aftermath

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Well, so it has been a hot minute since I last updated this - or wrote anything if I'm honest, but work and life have not given me a s...
22 April 2019

Camp Nanowrimo, April 2019

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Taking notes like a boss writer Oh y'all. Somehow this month's nano has been so hard for me. I mean worse than that time that...
11 April 2019

Qet!

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TlhIgan Alphabet Yeah, some of you didn't need the caption to know what the image is, did you? It's okay if you didn't, I wo...
02 April 2019

Here I go again, on my own...

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It's another Camp Nano, y'all, and I'm heading out into the metaphorical wilderness with my shiny copy of Scrivener for organi...
23 March 2019

Ongoing Scrivener Saga

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So after many hours of struggling with my own lack of patience, I finally cracked the code and got my enormous work in progress into Scriv...
22 March 2019

Crawling back out of the rabbit hole...

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First, let me say that if that image there was my rabbit hole I would never come back out. Ever. Right, so back to the topic at hand - r...
11 March 2019

On Daylight Savings Time and Writing Workshops ...

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I hates it, precious. I HATES IT! For the record, it isn't Daylight Savings Time I necessarily hate. It is the tampering with tim...
04 February 2019

On staves, poi, flow, and damaged elbows...

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[The image here is the effect created by someone spinning fire poi. Poi, in this sense, is a Maori word meaning "ball on string,...
01 February 2019

And here y'all thought I was going to complain...

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Not today. Okay, earlier today, but not now, even though the sun is creeping up and into the window I'm sitting in front of and maki...
18 January 2019

New Year, New You? Nope.

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So how many of you (admittedly, 5-6) Lettuce Readers have already given up on the New Year's Resolutions that you made a few weeks ag...
11 January 2019

Yes, Virginia Woolf, I am an author...

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So, I was working on some prep for an upcoming class I have to interpret and I stumbled upon a passage in an essay that not only struck me...
03 January 2019

#tenyearsdunne

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Like it was just yesterday. I still remember you on one knee at Manchester Airport (if you want me to say yes to something, asking when...
02 January 2019

Scorched and Clobbered on my way into 2019

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Yeah, that's what I look like in my head - but less blonde. Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Yeah, so I'm a little behind, b...