Look, I worked in healthcare for 20 years. I have a body of knowledge and first-hand anecdotes that are terrifying before applying imagination. This is incredibly useful for maintaining my social obligations at a tolerable level.
Thanks to planned obsolescence, my only-a-few-years-old laptop is in its death throes. It’s been one decline after another for the past several months, but this week’s adventure is accepting keyboard/mouse input only when it feels like it, which means it’s now 99% useless. She who laughs last, though. When I moved, I had to give
I bought a dozen composition notebooks in different colors for Project Notebooks rather than my habitual Compost Heap of Ideas, which eventually requires a full day to organize before it reaches critical mass. I cleaned my “desk” (the dining room table), which involved organizing and culling the latest Compost Heap of Ideas, kept a scratch
I ordered myself a $50 treat (a year’s supply of tea) with my “sorry we got caught ripping you off for years, here’s a sliver of your money back” class action settlement. It was delivered somewhere else, which I know because I was doing yardwork that whole day, had my eye out for the truck
Today’s baking whim was KAF’s Triple Berry Cinnamon Swirl Bread, but with finely diced apples instead of berries. They used a decent amount of cinnamon for a change, so no further anarchy was necessary. Very soft and fluffy inside, rather like the doughnut dough I use to make cinnamon rolls. Not super sweet (which I’m
A Duolingo lesson was suspiciously insistent that rabbits aren’t dangerous, to which I forcefully responded, “Only rabbits can eat you!” When I googled that to see where it came from, there were ZERO results on the entire wide worldly web—not a near match, not a did-you-mean, nothing. I’m wondering if it was a pre-internet garage
I’m not writing contemporary romance anymore, but I needed to do a trial run of some processes to work out the kinks before the fantasy romance is ready to go, so it seemed like a good occasion to make a bundle of the three contemporaries I self-published as Ren Benton. Thus, I bring you the
I am having a saga surrounding a publishing project unrelated to this one. The store I expected to be delayed because my account wasn’t approved until 2 days after I’d uploaded everywhere else had the book live 2 hours after I was able to log in[efn_note]And an hour of that was me having to reformat
I’ve long known my resting murder face has a lot to do with how I have to hold my jaw so I don’t constantly clench/grind my teeth, but I’ve only recently realized how much energy suppressing that consumes. So many little physical things are a constant battery drain. If somebody invented a bite guard that
There sure have been a lot of opportunities lately to practice keeping my eyes on my own paper. Like most people, I’ll have a kneejerk reaction to an Inflammatory Thing, but if I take two minutes to think about it rather than responding immediately, I frequently come to a realization the Inflammatory Thing has no