I had started a new LJ username and intended to use it only for entries pertaining to my writing, hoping to start updating this one about my personal life. Well, it hasn't exactly been going that way. I find that I write so many entries about my writing and books and such, that I'm always throwing in personal info too, since it's just so convenient ( Read more... )

My friend just scanned these pics for me, so I thought I'd share :)

( Pictures of my boys )

I was in the hospital trying to rest after giving birth to my wonderful little boy ( Read more... )

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Thank you for your well wishes for Jessica. She's doing real well. I saw her at Thanksgiving. She went back to work just after 2 weeks. She's still not completely healed, but she'll be fine ( Read more... )

This weekend I learned my cousin Jessica (technically Carl's cousin, but she's like mine also) went to the hospital. She just found out she had cancer and was scheduled the next day for surgery. The cancer was a HUGE mass on her kidney, the size of two big fists according to the doctors. The scary thing is she didn't have any symptoms from it. She ( Read more... )

I got rejections from the publishing company for both of my picture books this weekend.

Excuse me while I got sit in a corner and sulk.

*sigh* I'm so disappointed.

I have a story that was accepted into an upcoming anthology titled Stories of Strength, headed by Jenna Glazter of AbsoluteWrite.com, published by Lulu. 100 percent of the proceeds are going to the Red Cross disaster relief efforts. So far, it sounds like this will be big. All the contributing writers nationwide are contacting local newspapers, ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in awhile. Seems I only update on here every now and again. Days fly by too fast. On Sunday Alexander turned 8 months. I looked back on his newborn pics and can barely remember him even being that small, even though it really wasn't long ago ( Read more... )

I think my 2 hermit crabs got into a fight. I found one leg in the cage (I know it will grow back) but they've been acting differently towards each other since then. They're babies (so cute!) and they are, or were, always together, always slept next to each other. But now one of them is always on the opposite side of the cage from the other. I have ( Read more... )