Category Archives: family

Spyder T. Pussycat, 1996.11.??-2011.05.04

On a cold, snowy December evening in 1996, my parents and sister and I were about to head out to do some shopping.  When I opened the main door, which swung inward, I thought I might have seen something next to the screen door, but I didn’t think much of it.  When I tried to swing that door outward, though, I realized I’d hit something, namely a tiny month-old kitten who was huddled next to the door, shivering her little tail off.  We brought the…

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Married to My Work

Last month was the first calendar month since I started blogging that I didn’t post a single entry.  I apologize for that, but as much as my life has slowed down in some areas, it’s approaching mach speed in others.  My personal life is going through a huge transition right now, I’m trying to formulate Plan B — the backup in case The Plan doesn’t work (and at this point it looks like one of them has to work if I’m to retain any sense…

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Pretty Good Year

I always say I focus more on looking back over the past year on my birthday than on the last day of December, but given how most people use this day to reflect back, it’s hard for me not to do so as well.  If I said I didn’t like how this past year went, I’d have plenty of bad stuff to point to.  Mom’s health problems over the past year were certainly difficult (and as if things weren’t bad enough, she dislocated one of…

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Gaga Over the War on Christmas

[For those of you who don’t follow my Twitter or Facebook, Mom’s been in the emergency room twice in the past forty-eight hours, first for a slipped disc and painful kidney stone and urinary tract infection, then again because the antibiotic they gave her for her UTI caused her heart to palpitate.  She appears to be doing better now, but I’m taking nothing for granted at this point, and needless to say this has me kind of rattled.  Not that losing Mom would ever be…

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Personal Update

As I promised, things on the .org are going to be moving kind of slow here as I continue with the first stages of novel-editing.  From my experiences editing my poems and short stories, I know that these first edits always take the longest to do, and the novel is proving no exception.  It’s one thing when you’ve only got one or ten or twenty pages to edit, though; when your work is over four hundred pages long, then things become a lot more complicated. …

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