Moon Rise, Moon Set
I saw both the moon set and the moonrise yesterday. It was nearly full and spectacular. Silver white against the deep blue of the predawn sky, just above the horizon of the jagged mountains to the west of our desert valley, it took my breath away. In fact, I had to change my running route […]
Meet Adrienne Monson, Newly Minted Author!
Today I’m interviewing Adrienne Monson, author of the just-out-this-weekend newest-vampire-novel-on-the-shelves DISSENSION. She’s a cool chick with the most gorgeously stunning auburn hair you’ll ever see, and I appreciate her taking time to answer all my questions. First off, the most important question: do you snack when you write? If so, on what? (Don’t say blood.) How’d […]
Welcome to Goathead Island, Kids
It’s February 16th and about time to pull weeds again around here. The air is full of smoke from weedburning. Ever since my husband and I moved to this town 13 years ago, we’d been looking for land to build a house on. It’s a rural area with a slow economy. I figured, “How hard […]
Pac Man Fever versus MineCraft Fever
“Cache Valley Mall, too good to be true…Close to you.” That was the jingle on the radio near the beginning of the opening of the Cache Valley Mall in Logan, Utah. At lunch yesterday, I was trying to keep my kids from numbing my mind with unintelligible chanting and endless talk about the videogame “Mine […]
Guest Blogging Over at R.K. Grow’s Site!
Social media is pretty amazing. We meet people from all over the world–and we never leave the comfort of our pajamas! (And they don’t know we’re in our pajamas. I assume everyone thinks of me blogging in my ball gown with my tiara.) Recently I met via Twitter a really fun fellow writer, Rebekah Grow. […]
Hello, Johnny Raincloud! Will You Write My Scene?
This morning I woke up super cranky. Well, I didn’t actually realize I was cranky until the sharpest replies started coming out of my mouth. It was weird, like an ABC Afterschool Special, where the body and brain have been switched and the soul doesn’t recognize itself. “Who is that shrew and why is she […]
Is Revising a Goal the Same as Quitting?
I have revised my New Year’s Resolution. Already. I mentioned this to my husband, and he said, “It’s good to give up sometimes.” But, I argued, it’s not giving up. It’s changing my focus as a result of better information. My big plan was to make myself stop eating cold cereal—any cold cereal. This is […]
Reading to Keep Out the Cold
I know, I know. I live in Arizona. I have NO right to complain about the cold. I spend 3/4 of the year wishing it were colder, to be honest. But this morning, when it was about 20 degrees and we still have no heat in our house, I thought, dang. It’s cold. We worshipped […]
Getting Back in the Game — Running and Writing
So, while I was in DC, I didn’t run my morning run. For one thing, we were staying with my cousin Hillary and she lives in a hilly neighborhood, and I was pretty sure my knees couldn’t take it. For another, our entire days were taken up with walking around looking at the sights, and […]
Going Dark for DC/ Threats and Bribery: The Delicate Balance of Parenting
So, for the past week I basically went dark on internet interaction. It was weird to leave the “computer me” behind–all my editing projects and writing and this great swirling pit of time-suck known as social media that must be done when a person has a book recently in publication. It was nice to just […]
