Writing While the Rice Boils

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. My son's diagnosis with over 50 food allergies gave me a choice:...

You may or may not have noticed how quiet it's been here. No rice boiling at all! A week and a half ago I had surgery. What was sup...

Photo courtesy of Stock.xchng Some of you may have participated in the auction I wrote about last week . The items up for bidding in th...

So NaNoWiMo is almost one-third of the way done. And my word count is definitely not one-third of the way accomplished. Yesterday, I sat...

photo credit: mine I spent a little while yesterday scanning through pictures of the devastation brought by Hurricane Sandy. Having li...

Courtesy of A. B. Rutuelo It's been hard to watch my hometown go through the ravages of Sandy this week. The subway tunnels I used ...

  I'm a nosy writer. Are you? I love to hear more about what other people are writing, how they got their ideas, and what inspires them...

Photo courtesy of Stock.xchng When you've discovered a brand-new, shiny idea for a novel, you never think it will come to this: the...

Photo courtesy of Stock.xchng It's an unusually rainy day here in Colorado. Most of our rain comes in buckets (we call them 'g...

My son Daniel at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO. Why have most of us been glued to the Olympic games the past few...

I'm taking the day off today to enjoy friends, family, and our community's ugly dog contest (among other things). We're also...

I had every intention of posting a "normal" post today. But after watching a huge section of Colorado Springs burn last night, i...

Kind of a weird week here. A new fire was started on Saturday afternoon much closer than the one I mentioned last week . My son works no...

Crazy days here in Colorado. There's a wildfire twenty miles west of here , causing evacuations for many of my friends. Last week I put...

My kids on an incredibly scary swing. I'm back from vacation, and ready to get settled into my summer writing routine. How about y...

I blogged about my pitch to an agent, and about hearing 'send it' . I blogged about actually hitting 'send' . So now it...

This is a Facebook post from my friend Angela Giles Klocke . When I saw it this morning, I realized how many of us come to this point an...

This isn't the first time I've heard 'send it'. But it's the first time I actually did send it (see here for why I d...

I've never done one of these Q&A blog themes, but since I'm running around today between errands and doctor appointments, I thou...

Today, February 20th, marks the two-month anniversary of my family's Season of Sickness . On December 20th, the first of my four childre...