So busy-busy.
I got married almost two weeks ago.  I panicked in the last couple weeks about whether I was going to get that dress as decorated as I wanted it and I recruited some belly dance friends to help me bead and sequin it. So I had two ladies give up several evening for me. [...]

My appetite is still gone. But I really don’t seem to be suffering for it.
However, related or unrelated, Thursday night I had the strongest spell of feeling quite divorced from reality. I was trying to get Hannah out of the house to go to my dance rehearsal and she gave me some two-year-old dodge regarding [...]

So, molds, right? Starting to get pretty convinced I must have mold somewhere in my life. Maybe at work as well as in my home. Probably different strains - both places smell musty, but work is where my lungs hurt and I get a bad taste in my mouth and I cough [...]

It’s June 15th Dudez! That means it’s re-birthday - the Holiday I am fully adopting in lieu of ever celebrating my birthday again.
I was not very well organized this year, so I never got around to telling you all how Rebirthday is celebrated, so you will be forgiven if you didn’t celebrate it exactly right [...]

Tonight at dance practice we spent the whole night working on a Zar dance. It’s a tribal dance involving a lot of spinning and swaying the head wildly from side to side and its ancient use was to induce a trance in which to appease your spirits (or Djinn).
Well, after two or more hours of [...]

I am investigating a new lead in the Chronic Illness Drama.
You probably remember my not-long-ago day at home with Hannah where I suddenly couldn’t keep my eyes open and fell asleep on the floor?
And then I was okay the next day. And then on Monday I was wasted again at the end of the day. [...]

Yech. Crying is totally one of those “don’t break the seal” things. Once you’ve let yourself a little bit, it’s almost impossible to get it all bottled back up and finish your work day. Again, I say, Yech.
Not really much to say about it. Just had an argument today and some of the things that [...]

Guess what i found? I found my book outline!!!! Yeeeeeah! I’ve been searching for that sucker since my separation seven years ago.
Okay, I mean, we’re talking about an eight year old book outline written by a miserable & melodramatic 24 year old for a book with a completely different plot from the one I want [...]

This last weekend I was attending a writing workshop on Juvenile/YA Fantasy.
At the end of Saturday we had a really great group discussion about writing ethics and cultural appropriation (and other privileged appropriation of non-privileged voices and issues).
Fully intend to discuss further my (lack of conclusive) conclusions. In the meantime, apropos of this issue, here [...]

Fell in the shower
Giant red welt on my thigh
isn’t purple yet.