I've been feeling good about my writing these past few days. Am really, really at the very end of the BLN. I wrote the BIG scene, the crisis, the hidden event that propels the action, the plot, the novel. I futzed around a long time before I actually wrote it. I was scared. I think it came out OK ( Read more... )

OK, so I might be a little behind the times on this one, I just got around to watching What the Bleep Do We Know. I think my life is changed forever ( Read more... )

The second half of the workout feels better than the first.

Ice is my friend.

I'm kinda competitive.

Endorphins feel gooooood.

I did my taxes tonight...I knew I was going to have to pay, so I waited until the last minute. I just didn't know I was going to have to pay so very, very much ( Read more... )

Even though housing prices are insane and lots of people have moved in (me) and traffic is bad and public transport is not what it should be, it's all good because last night was my first running class for the triathlon and the coach started off by saying, "OK, first thing, we'll run down to Stevie Ray Vaughn."

I love Austin.

Since I got back from my mom’s memorial, I’ve been exhausted. Lying listlessly on the couch, going to bed before nine every night this week. In times like this, I really appreciate it that my life allows me the time I need ( Read more... )

My mom died about a month and a half ago. I've been thinking so much, so hard about her, about life. The whole thing, this dying thing, is so odd. I've never been close to anyone who's died before, it's been hard and it's been sad, but mostly now it's just odd. Odd how the world closes in around the hole that she left, odd how quickly we ( Read more... )

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Today, in 1955, US Customs confiscated 520 copies of Howl that had been printed in England. They said it was obscene ( Read more... )

A couple of days ago, I was going to work and a flock of birds came in for a landing in the trees next to the walk. They lit in the trees and then, startled, took flight again, settling in a clump of trees on the other side of the walk. Again, almost as soon she they landed, the entire flock rose up to land in another tree. They did this over and ( Read more... )