mcchambers

My day is made!

mcchambers Jun 12, 2009 16:48

As I was driving along 23rd street at oh about 4:10 pm, I spotted a turtle booking like heck to get across the busy road. I slowed, but the car beside me pulled ahead and cut ahead of me. It was a police car - it parked at an angle across the lanes, and the policeman got out and helped the turtle to the side of the road. YAY! Turtle is saved! ( Read more... )

police, turtle

kitty haiku

mcchambers Jun 04, 2009 20:03

kittens on shoulders
sound like lawn mowers until
they run out of gas

haiku, kittens

You know you're old when?

mcchambers May 15, 2009 21:46

My son's MP3 player has a level on it. Not only does it play music and games, but it contains carpentry tools!

I find this extremely weird--

I guess I'm vastly behind the times.

old, carpentry tools, son

Kittehs!

mcchambers Apr 30, 2009 21:55

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cat, kittens

snow day

mcchambers Mar 31, 2009 18:14

Sunday Chris dug my car out of the snow. It had a flat tire, so I stayed home and took a nap.

I am letting the current draft of my story rest for a few days (fermenting?) before I look at it again.

snow, writing, car

not dead yet

mcchambers Mar 20, 2009 06:38

Making some progress - after four weeks of chiropractic I am taking half the painkillers I had been. More and more the pain subsides to mere annoyance. I have added pads and pillows of various shapes to all my seating, office chair, car seat, etc. to keep my spine supported correctly. With the advent of spring I hope to get out and get more ( Read more... )

writing, sciatica

getting through the day

mcchambers Feb 24, 2009 18:33

I'm diagnosed with sciatica, which stands for "blinding pain with no means of quick relief". I went to the doctor for drugs and am starting daily chiropractic treatments. The drugs depress me. I go to work and wonder daily if I can stand another minute of this. The chiropractor says it will take some time. I am impressed with the way he can zero ( Read more... )

sciatica, my rock

Thanks to all!

mcchambers Jan 19, 2009 20:24

Thanks to everyone who came to the book signing. It was great to see you! I hope you enjoy the stories.

visual silence

Book Signing

mcchambers Jan 11, 2009 20:09

I will be doing a book signing at Parkside Books next Saturday, January 17, 2009, from 12:00-3:00 p.m. for the anthology Return to Luna, which contains my Grand Prize winning story, “Visual Silence”, as well as 17 other winning stories from the National Space Society’s Return to Luna fiction contest.

Fellow author David Schibi (“The Return”) ( Read more... )

visual silence, anthology, return to luna

No pigeons

mcchambers Jan 02, 2009 14:14

For some time, whenever I happened to get up from the computer and leave a file open, my son would sneak the word "pigeon" at random into my manuscripts. So the last thing I do before submitting is word search for "pigeon". He's been away at college, so I haven't had to deal with that for a while; but he's back for the holidays - surely he's ( Read more... )