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Strange interlude - stranger bedfellows

No wonder I couldn’t sleep. There was a dead mouse in my bed.

Besieged at the coffee shop!

My best friend and I get stuck inside our favorite coffee shop by a police standoff across the street.

Good news, bad news

Bad news: have to stop reading two great novels. Good news: get to start reading writers group submissions!

Independence me

How am I, this Fourth of July? Alive and kicking!

Model summer

My happiest summer: building WWI airplane models as a kid.

Victory is mine!

I get a new book proposal out. Hopefully money coming in will ensue.

Emma comes home!

At last, Emma’s home.

Kathy and Steve Kubica brought her back from the kennel today. Poor child’s been gone a long time. I felt bad about not bringing her home earlier, but the fact was I was in no shape to deal with her before this. She’s a very good girl. She’s also large, strong, and [...]

Home again

Rumors of my death are scarcely exaggerated. Home now, and doing much better.

Let it snow

I sit in my seventh floor penthouse room watching the most beautiful snowstorm I’ve ever seen. Fat flakes nudge the window, sometimes floating and fluttering, currently driven. I can see no more than maybe a quarter mile. Snow blankets rooftops and rooflines and flocks the trees.

Welcome to the Equinox, and the first official (bureaucratic) day [...]

The writer's dilemma

You might as well know it, if you don’t already: there’s tension between the writer’s need to connect with his or her fans – through, say, oh, I don’t know, blogs? – and the writer’s need to make money.

You can clearly see which end of the dilemma I’ve been coming out on lately.

The problem is, [...]