Days like today, I wonder why it took me so long to leave Las Vegas.
According to Google it’s 68 degrees here. It’s not raining, but it smells like rain. You know that yummy smell they try to make candles smell like but always fail? I’ve lived in the desert for so long that rain-smell is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘garden’
Beautiful
Posted in writing, tagged garden, publishing, writing on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Patience, patience
Posted in writing, tagged garden, publishing, writing on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Isn’t it nice to come home? I really love the feeling of sleeping in my own bed after a few nights trying to sleep with a wiggly toddler on a narrow mattress. Especially because my husband is a little bit of a clean-o-holic and I know that I’ll come home to clean sheets [...]
Playin’ in the Garden with Ruby
Posted in family, tagged family, garden, kids, Ruby on June 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ruby found a lady bug in the garden today. This was after she sat with me at the table on the patio with a pencil and some scratch paper, working on her ’story’ while I worked on a hard-copy edit of mine. So, here you have it: the aphid-eater and the [...]
A Soft Wind Blows
Posted in writing, tagged garden, submissions, writing on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My first chapter is up at Critique Circle.
So far I’ve had three critiques. All three said they liked my writing and only had minor issues. That’s fantastic. I submitted the first chapters of my first novel right after I wrote it and was so traumatized by the feedback that I almost [...]
