Shannon

Oh my goodness, what a negligent blogger! Often I think, Oh I blogged yesterday; I can skip today; but apparently I blogged three or four yesterdays ago, and that just won’t do. So! It’s been a busy week and weekend. Work on Our Lady of the Islands continues frenetically; the book is getting closer and […]

Strawberries Galore! And that’s what I’ve got for you today. I did, at least, get more accomplished, work-wise. But still not the things I really needed to get done. Because they involve making phone calls. And…for some reason, that’s never been an easy thing for me. But, strawberries!

I’ve been feeling sort of partially disassembled all day. I slept till 9, which is not unheard of, though it is absolutely not normal; all the things I thought I would get done today, were not the things I got done today. Though I did get things done today! Laundry, and some groceries, and some

So I have this barbecue, and I’m not real confident about using it. But I’ve also got this brand-new deck, and the weather is finally nice, and, well. A while back, when My Dear Miss Q was staying here briefly, she, being full of confidence, suggested we barbecue. We actually did it a few times,

Jay Lake died this morning. I got the news, as many of you did, when I woke up this morning. And I have spent the day processing it. As I will be for many days to come, I think. It’s not that it was a surprise, of course. The timing perhaps–but even that, there had

We have a problem with squirrels, as I may have mentioned. The problem is our next-door neighbor, who has a dozen or more squirrel-feeders in his yard. Night and day, you can hear the little jerks (the squirrels, that is; the neighbor, aside from this glaring flaw, seems perfectly nice) getting peanuts out of the

Especially when I’ve got a disconnected jumble of things to write about. 🙂 Yesterday was a lovely day–almost kind of a day off, or as much of a day off as freelancers/writers ever get. It was sunny, and Miss H came over to see the new deck, and for her-and-me to have girl-time, though before

Twitter is turning out to be fun. Who knew? 🙂 I am slowly integrating myself into it. Trying not to follow too many people all at once. Learning to think in short bits. And not worrying about keeping up with everything. I mean, I didn’t see anything that was there before I joined, and I’ve

Well! It was a day of unexpected and interesting things. First of all I finally decided to take the plunge and (re)joined Twitter. I’m at @PagesPDX if you want to see what I blather about. Though I fear today won’t be exactly…representative. I began my (re)new(ed) Twitter career with a tweet about poop (AS ONE

The novel, it is not, in fact, done. I did, however, send what was done (26 chapters, 433 pages) to Brilliant Editor Jak yesterday, so he can start reading, and because there are a whole lot of other things that need doing around here, that were going to get done as soon as the novel