A Personal Renaissance
Last weekend, my husband and I went to the Montana Renaissance Festival here in town. We’ve gone on and off ever since it started on the grounds of our local…
Read moreJust Do It (Again & Again & Again….)
This past week, I challenged myself to turn the speech recorder on on my phone every night after work when I got in the car to drive home. The ultimate…
Read moreExcuses, Excuses
I always have an excuse. It’s been a long day at work. My head’s just not ready for it. I didn’t have a chance to review what I’ve already written.…
Read moreIt’s Not 42
It’s 2:29am on a Saturday morning, and I really should be sleeping. Story of my life, as they say. One of my challenges for this year is to get at…
Read moreThe Art of Business
When people find out I have a micro-publishing house, they always say, “Oh, tell me more about that! I’ve always been curious how that works!” I confess, I’m never really…
Read moreProgress & Deliberately Tone-Deaf
I’ve written several posts since January, and haven’t posted any of them, for a few reasons. The first is simple…I wrote, or started writing them, and failed to follow through…
Read moreThe Fear of Commonality
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I write, and why I’m drawn to writing certain things. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s largely a mental exercise for…
Read moreThe Year Of…
Alrighty then…I’m back. Again. And determined to make it stick this time. I miss blogging. Normally I’d have posted a “Year in Review” between Christmas and New Year’s, but 2025…
Read moreAnd Just Like That…
…life tumbled again. The Tuesday night before Halloween, I felt a baseball-sized mass just behind and below Athena’s ribs. She’d been having some incontinence issues that I was treating as…
Read moreThe Trouble With Writing…
..isn’t really the writing (for me). The trouble I have with writing is all the stuff that needs to come after, and the fact that most of it requires sitting…
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