Sometimes I get hung up in the minutia of day-to-day living. The work I do at my day job. Whether I’m writing. Whether I’m not writing. Whether I’m working towards my goals. Whether I’m not working towards my goals. Whether I just want to say I have goals, but I don’t really want to work […]
Archives for 2011
12 Ways You Can Tell The Electricity Has Been Off Too Long
November 3, 2011 by 6 Comments
Hello, everyone! It’s so good to be talking with you all again. I had an unexpected blog hiatus when the snow storm from hell hit on Saturday and took my power out for five days. And, since it was a COLD five days, I was more concerned with getting under enough blankets than finding […]
Literary Thoughts
October 27, 2011 by 8 Comments
In the world of fiction, there are two categories. Literary fiction, and everything else. Literary fiction confuses me. There. I’ve said it. I, your hostess, an English Major, am confused by literary fiction. It’s not necessarily the books themselves I find confounding (although, hello! James Joyce anyone?). It’s the definition. What exactly IS literary fiction […]
What Kind of Writing?
October 25, 2011 by 6 Comments
So let’s say that you’ve decided to be a writer. Great! Go you! But how do you figure out what KIND of writing you want to do? By the way, I’m talking about writing here because that’s my experience. But I think this same issue crops up in all creative endeavors. How do you decide […]
Goals
October 23, 2011 by 8 Comments
In the last couple of weeks, it’s been driven home to me how little control I have over my own life. Decisions that other people make, lives other people have lived, things other people say – all of them impact my life, and I have no control over it at all. Even if I bear […]
The iPod Follies – Part 2
October 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
If you’ve read my post from a couple of days ago, then you know the lunacy I went through trying to get my dearly beloved iPod set up on my computer. And how I bought a computer for my iPod. Well, lest you think that the insanity ended there, I thought I would tell you […]
