Wind

Most days during winter in my area are full of wind. That’s a good thing when it comes to working on my latest book, the second in a new series. (The first book, The Kilhellion, hasn’t come out yet. It’s still in edits.) Most people know about the concept of wind chill. There’s certainly a […]

Disappearances

Our dog, Brian, is still missing. In some ways his long absence has settled in and become part of the past. In other ways it’s more painful. Now when I see an image of him, I feel a stabbing pain in my chest. I hadn’t had any dreams of him since I dreamt of his […]

Struggles

There are always bad things going on at the same time as good things, so it should come as no surprise to anyone when something major happens in the middle of a writing project. In this case, it’s my dog, Brian. He ran off on November 20th, 2017 and we’re doing everything we can to […]

Orycon

Ear worm of the day: The theme song from the old cartoon Underdog. The administrators for the morning miracle added some incentives and restarted the challenge. I took advantage and decided to wait until after the end of the weekend to start daily practice because of Orycon. Orycon is a yearly speculative fiction convention (science […]

Ear Worms

During my ‘silent’ meditation today, I couldn’t get a song out of my head. It’s the fated meeting song from Om Shanti Om, one of my favorite movies, and it’s still rolling through my mind on constant repeat. I did get a few quiet moments in there. Our place out in the semi-rural woodland wonderland […]

Miracle Mornings

Have I mentioned that I don’t care for catchy titles that promise unlikely things? Well, I do dislike that, and so I had a negative reaction when a habit-forming support group suggested that we all try Miracle Mornings by Hal Elrod. I was like, Miracle Mornings? Really? But I read the overview and the items […]

Tumbling on Tumblr

Pardon the lack of posting. I’ve been having trouble figuring out the super-simple interface for the website. I’m such a dork! Anyway, I recently started hanging out on tumblr and I’m astonished at the amount of really wonderful stuff there. I’ve started pinning stuff onto Pinterest from there so I can save the best of […]

The Body-Mind

I started seeing Candie of Massage Intentions after a women’s retreat when she did some massage therapy on me. The amazing work she did reconnected me to a bunch of mind-body philosophical stuff that’s still percolating. Some of it goes back to attitudes I’d had as a child about mortality, how the brain works during […]