…And I Take My Whiskey Neat

I never expected to be at ease with setting my writing aside for months. I’m still a member of a couple of writing groups, but I don’t Zoom into all the meetings even though I’m in town. I even forgot a Zoom workshop I was looking forward to! Yikes! I am, at least,…

I have not blogged here since 2021, so kinda not in forever. Lots has happened since then. I’ve been working on writing, but in the last couple of years, I’ve been working more on moving from Arizona to Oregon. (There are lots of reasons, but the main ones…

The Jollyfoot’s Journey has been revised, and the revision – of Books One and Two, and of Books Three and Four (a separate volume), and of the Kindle edition of all four books – should be available on Amazon in a day or two. And guess what? The price of the second…

The last few months have maybe not been as hard on me as on some people. Over the summer I got some writing done, but in the last few weeks, I haven’t done much. That’s because* I’m waiting for National Novel Writing Month to start …. I’m trying a new genre, a…

​I’m easily distracted, but I don’t think I’m wasting time.Covid cannot be redacted, so I make masks for me and mine.(I’m also making some for friends, and some to donate, too –in these days of life and death, it’s the least that I…

I haven’t written anything new, except for jotting down some ideas … but not because I’m suffering from the depression and distraction that attends the Covid crisis for so many of us. I’m not writing new stuff because I’m working on editing…

​For writing conventions, I’ve got a workshop called Writing Witches, about how to create realistic Pagan characters. But in this blog, I’m talking about Writing Bitches, because that’s what I’m trying to do right now. Constance Evershaw is the…

It has been some time since I’ve blogged here, probably because it has been some time since I’ve been writing. But – it’s November, and that’s National Novel Writing Month, and it compels me. (This is my thirteenth year…

So, Husband-man, aka Dear Husband (DH, which is the abbreviation we use on the RV FB pages), had his first cataract surgery last Thursday, and will have his second this coming Thursday. For the next forever weeks (not really – 7 weeks, really) there will be eye…