When Life Happens

It was time for a change. My old website has been up for several years now and I wanted something new. I also needed to reorder business cards for the RWA National Conference in New York, so I decided to go with a whole new look for my print and online presence. I got the cards from Vista Print and am really happy with them. Here’s the front: The design tool on their site is super easy to use and I opted to buy the electronic files to use them for the website. Herbal remedies are also viagra buy on …

My last blog was ages and ages ago, sorry about that. Work took up all time last quarter because I decided to teach an overload—bad decision—of a class I’d never taught before. Then Christmas came, then my computer crashed, and the normal cycle of life happened where writing seems to take a backseat. The good news is I’m still writing and meeting with my critique group; the bad news is I still don’t have a book deal. Or is that actually bad news? I have a few writer friends who are very successful and have been churning out at least …

There has been loads of time during my first week here that could be used for writing, but the same thing that always happens when I visit happened again. Spending my days speaking Swedish means I can’t put English worth a crap on the page. My sentences are all wrong. I reverse the noun-verb order and can’t find a synonym to save my soul. My sentence structure becomes super simple and my work read like a first graders’ “What I did this Summer” essay. This visit, I have writing deadlines for paying gigs. So to keep my brain in English …

This summer has been a tough one. My mom was first diagnosed with breast cancer sixteen years ago and twice since then, the family has made a collective sigh of relief when she passed the statistically significant milestones of 5 years as a survivor. This summer we were cheated again when doctors determined that the lump she found in her armpit was malignant. They also discovered a tumor in her spine. I guess after a full mastectomy and more than seven years of lying dormant, the cancer decided to rear its ugly head again. We went through a couple of …

Wow! Why is it that computer things that we estimate to take a few hours usually ends up taking a few days? I’ve been immersed in HTML and PHP code for several days now. My hosting company moved to new servers and offers lots of new bells and whistles for their customers, including Word Press Blog support. So, I decided I was clever enough to figure out how to customize the Word Press themes to work with my site and manipulate the PHP code to do what I wanted it to do. Well, after several days, I now know more about PHP and CSS than …