I was going to title this blog f&%*ing GPS, but I am trying to clean up my language a bit. To get to Seattle, I have a 4+ hour commute. To get to Moses Lake 6+ and to get to the airport…well I thought it was 3.5 hours.  This is where the darned GPS comes… Read More Twilight Zone GPS

Change is hard sometimes but necessary. Whenever I’ve made changes in my life, the change prompts a completely new routine. When I lost my job, I didn’t know how to behave. I didn’t have to get up at 4:30a anymore and soon got into the habit of sleeping in until 6:30a or 7:00. I’d toss… Read More Routines and Habits

If you follow my blog and various Facebook posts, you probably already know I took a brand new position in Forks, Washington which is the rainiest place in the United States. Forks is also where the Twilight series was set. I asked the locals about this because I must admit, I saw all the movies.… Read More Vampire Land

Well, crap…all that time spent on ridding myself of the hoarder gene by getting rid of absolutely everything so we could fit into the 1,000-foot condo is now biting me in the ass. Yup, I could really use one of those three couches we gave away or one the two queen-sized beds. A coffee table… Read More Bring Back The Hoarder

It’s Friday, so I am compelled to do something similar to GCLS and write an update after only one day of the conference because some people (not naming names here) will ask where’s the Friday blog? This time writing the blog way before the conference ends makes sense because we arrived last Saturday. Unbeknownst to us,… Read More LCLC Midcap

Several months ago I wrote about going back into the closet and how painful that decision was to make. Now I am about to go to an interview for a position that I believe might be a great fit for me and I’ll be playing the Pronoun Game. I’m sure those of you who are… Read More The Pronoun Game

The other day I was talking to a friend of my wife’s and educating her on the economics of being a full-time writer. She was under the erroneous assumption that I was making a good living as a full-time writer ever since my early retirement. My wife corrected her and because she had more questions, they… Read More But I AM a Lesbian

Ha! Got your attention, didn’t I? Why is it that we crave venturing into the forbidden? Like moths to a flame. Or maybe that’s just me. I recently completed the first draft of…gasp…a historical novella. I’d always maintained there were certain sub-genres I would never attempt and historical fiction was one of them. Oh, who… Read More Forbidden Territory

The other day I was reminded of why I always passed on the TV show, America’s Funniest Home Videos. In one of the groups, someone posted a typical video that would usually win on that show…something that highlighted an epic fail with a dose of pain. You know the ones, the line drive softball to… Read More That’s Entertainment…