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I called to check up on my folks today, and to see how my mother enjoyed her 80th birthday. Stories from home tend to be on the weird side, but I’m used to it. I’m also used to thinking there is a fair strain of crazy running in my family. Maybe it’s what attracts the […]

I’m not a big follower of Oprah, but apparently she is devoting a lot of airtime to some woman who wrote a book called “The Secret”. It is about the ‘law of attraction’. This is a kind of like industrial-strength positive thinking. It says we can attract the things we want to our lives by […]

Yesterday, I celebrated the end of winter by slipping on an icy patch in front of the local Shopko, and spraining my knee. Feeling much better today, after much Advil, and ice. (And probably not going to sue you, Shopko, since I don’t think I need surgery. But we’ll see next week, shall we?) And […]

It’s Destination Imagination season, again. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about: this is a problem solving competition for grades 3-12. I manage a team, every year. If yelling at and feeding teenage boys can be considered management of them. Although this year, yelling has been at a minimum. If […]

I’ve been writing a lot, lately. Pretty steady, since quitting the day job at the beginning of December. In the last two and a half months I’ve: Finished my third novel for Mills & Boon. Got a response from an agent, looking at my contemporary, single title. Instead of running away screaming, or walking slowly […]