This has been a busy week. When last we saw our intrepid meerkat, she was heading in to meet with the oncology specialist, who had all of her lab work and test results, and was ready to sit down and discuss What Next. That was Monday. I’ll spare you the hour and a half, complete […]
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In which I catch everyone up, and give some context to my tweets. Then: On November 12th, I went to the ER with massive pains I thought was appendicitis. Four hours later, after an x-ray and CT scan, I was told that it was a tumor and I should go home and think about
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This is the beginning of the Days of Repentance in the Jewish tradition, starting today with Rosh Hashanah (Yom Ha-Zikkaron) and ending ten days from now with Yom Kippur. I am mostly, as I often say, a forgetting-to-practice Jew. But there are a few traditions I hold fast to, and the High Holy Days are
“You will cast all their sins into the depths of the [metaphorical] sea.†Read More »
Well, that was special. I just saw someone on Facebook, who probably thinks of themselves as a perfectly decent and good Christian, dismiss all of Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism, among others, as ‘just tribal laws.’ Honey, it’s ALL just ‘tribal laws.’ You’re just prioritizing your tribe over everyone else’s, and the name for that ain’t
As we used to say on Livejournal, 3 things makes a post. Read More »
Since I got scolded for not shilling myself enough (ugh), I’m gonna do this all-promo post fast, and you can do with it as you will, after, ok? 1. If you’re not signed up for the Gilman Quarterly yet, you aren’t going to have a chance to win one of three limited edition West Winds’
Paying the piper (and also the electric bill and the vet’s bill, and….) Read More »
So, I’ve spent the week post-Rainforest Writers Retreat being moderately ick – not the flu, thankfully, but a nasty virus nonetheless. My head’s been stuffed full of gunk, and I’ve basically been sleeping 12 hours a day. So that’s put a kibosh on my plans to promote the new paperback of THE COLD EYE. :-(
State of the Meerkat: post-Retreat, ongoing Ick Read More »
Another fabulous night at the SFWA Pacific Northwest Reading Series, with Fran Wilde, Susan Forrest, and Jason Gurley. It’s always fun to hear three very different styles/voices, in one setting – good for the ear, good for the brain. And it was good to have a distraction from watching portions of the US fail their
State of the Meerkat: March Read More »
THE COLD EYE has gone back to my esteemed editor, wherein he will hopefully assure me that I did not break anything new in the fixing of previous breaking things, and ready it for production. Which is good, because we have a Pub Date! And a Pre-order page! (for Amazon US.  Canadians click here.  Australians! The
I may have the Plague. Or, possibly not – it seems milder than the plague symptoms I’m hearing, so this may just be a 24 hour misery. If so, I am going to give credit to my getting my fly shot a few weeks ago, and be quietly thankful. I am Too Busy to be
Into the Wild, er, Weekend…. Read More »
Make coffee. Feed and shoot cats. Drink coffee. Have breakfast. Return emails. Check social media. Return returned emails. Turn off social media. Go to work. Deadlines: distant but visible. 2016 is officially underway. (there is no truth to the rumor that I threw a New Year’s Day party simply so that I would have leftovers
Picking Up Where We Left Off Read More »