Like all authors, I keep a quote file. For today, I'm sharing a bunch of fortunes that I have saved. Why fortune cookies? Well, I...

 I was shuffling through my iPhone pictures, and decided to post some things that I liked. Just because. :) The Footed Bowl from the NY ...

Me to The Charming Man: "I know you are a keyboard slut. And I'm ok with it."

I was singing along with Michael Jackson's Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough in the shower. Instead of the chorus: Keep On ...

The final line of an IM conversation between The Charming Man and myself: "Cannibalism can be freeing!"

The Charming Man just shot down my idea of turning the interior of the house into a bouncy castle. I think my brain is going.

There is a downside to growing up in a family of clowns. Today was a great example. This afternoon, I treated myself to lunch at the yummy...

Yes. This does count as working.

So I went to the Mark Rothko exhibit expecting to be overwhelmed and moved to tears. But for some reason, I wasn't feeling the magnifice...

I'm the sort that needs a lot of intellectual stimulation, or my brain goes crazy with the self-criticism. I finally remembered that in ...

Is the odd-ball stuff my brain throws at me. I've had this beginning rolling around in my head for a while: “Get a load of her,” a m...

I'm the Wednesday blogger over at the Cascade Literary Agency blog . This week is everyone's introductions. Not my strength, but I...

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When it takes you five times to spell the word "quiet", it's time to go to sleep.

I feel much more like me. Yay! Today, I will attempt to write as poorly as I possibly can - I want to create the worst, on-the-nose, overb...

I have managed some sort of throat/upper chest infection, with a dry, hacking cough that really really sucks. I've got my cough syrup wi...

Here's a poem I've always liked and I think it's pretty good. It's just not...right yet. Any thoughts? My grief breaks me, I...

Emily Dickinson said hope is a thing with feathers, delicate, light, and small. I think hope is giant beast with fangs, claws, and fur. It c...

A new blog, Contestations: Dialogues on Women's Empowerment , has a fabulous first issue about feminism and Islam. Rock on!! Also dealin...

You know you are sick when watching Julia Child cook makes you want to throw up instead of cook.