Got home yesterday, and dang, it’s hot here! So we just pretty much wilted. Okay, that’s not true; had to do grocery shopping, and watering, and install the window air-conditioning unit in my bedroom, and deal with a minor fish tank emergency (the filter stopped working, but then it started again after we took it […]

Camping was fun, but hard, but fun; I am sunburnt, and BOY did the shower feel good when we got back to Mark’s parents’ house!, and a full report will come later, but here’s what we did for dinner, reaffirming the well known fact that Everything Tastes Better Outside: Macaroni and cheese! From a box!

Annnnd….we are off for our camping trip! After a bit of research on camping, we camp upon the amazing blog, Techie Camper, and truthfully we feel like we could actually live in the woods. Okay, maybe not. But we did learn a lot from this blog. With the right and enough firewood, we will have

Very little internet here, and far too much food–as per usual! 🙂 But just a quick note to say that all is well. Because I KNOW you all were SO worried. 🙂 Tomorrow, a quiet day here, chez Mark’s parents; Wednesday, the great camping adventure commences. Wish me luck….

Cascade is done, and I am pleased and exhausted…I had a marvelous time, and am already looking forward to next year. Tomorrow I leave for California, to see Mark and hang out with his parents for a few days, then we’re going camping! So, blogging will be sporadic and then nonexistent till next weekend. YOU

It’s been a full couple of days, commuting back and forth to the Cascade Writer’s Workshop–lots of fun, lots of interesting things to learn. Last night I stayed past midnight, then had to drive home (no traffic at that hour!). This evening I pooped out before 8pm, came home, took care of a few things

Today was the first day of the Cascade Writers Retreat–I haven’t written about it at all, sorry! The thing is, I’m not actually participating in the workshopping portion of it, so I was able to keep going about my business until time to show up at the meeting this evening. Which I did, and saw

No writing today…two new freelance jobs in (hooray!), and a third one finally materialized after some technical difficulties, so I got busy on all that. Oh and went to three different grocery stores and the hardware store and the chiropractor and yoga class, and watered everything, and took the car in for service, and greeted

I inched forward another few pages in my edit of Hobgoblin today–after realizing that I’d done it again, I’d started this chapter too late. I had the interesting part happen off-stage and then showed the characters ruminating about it. Bad writer! No cookie! So I fixed that. And then moved a little farther, till I

I’m edging back towards working on Hobgoblin…I’ve been out of it just long enough that it’s taking some time to find the story again. I reread the last chapter I’d edited, and then started on this one…and got up and washed the dishes, and returned…and went and read the whole internet, and returned…and got some