This is a depressingly short post because I accomplished hardly ANYTHING in August. ‘cringes’ What happened?? How could August be over?? And WHY WASN’T I MORE ORGANIZED AND PRODUCTIVE??? I do hate unproductive cycles. I mean – what on earth was I DOING all August??? I wish, Maru. But anyway – onto the meager nutshell. Warning: Major Gif-Zone ahead.…
July. You’re a sneaky one, oh you merciless July – you missed me by a hair – but close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. I survived. Though I must admit I’m feeling the affects. July turned out to be one of the busiest, most disruptive months of the year with big changes at work and our home. …
‘places small shriveled nutshell on desk’ Yes, this is a VERY small nutshell for June. Why? Because the Black Death swept through our house in mid May and decided to stay for an extended visit. The nasty thing had a regular holiday messing with us and nearly got the best of us a couple of times. Because of this less-than-welcome…
‘pops out of woodwork with a swirl of confetti’ HELLO PEOPLE! YOU ALL LOOK VERY FAMILIAR! Did you miss me? I missed all of you – a LOT. A lots been happening at the Well since I last saw you – most notably the new Well – courtesy of Paul Willis. I am very excited to be launching this…
April in a Nutshell Hey people! No long introduction this time – just diving straight into the nutshell. Are you ready? Hold onto your hats! 1. I nailed my Camp NaNo goal of 30,000 words. *takes it in for a moment* Coming out of the deep, slimy pit of writer’s block – writing 30,033 words felt pretty good! A…
March. Just when you think you’re on top of your schedule – something happens to knock you off the ‘to do’ pile. Ah well, such is life and all it curious twists and turns; it’s vagaries are like the tentacles of an octopus – invariably pulling me away from my dream schedule. But I’ll talk more about that later…
All kinds of thing’s were popping up in our yard in the month of February . . . daffodils, pear blossoms, coyotes – whoops! Did I say, coyotes? Um . . . yep, I did. We really thought the coyote family had moved to new stomping grounds, but apparently they told some friends that our sprawling property and…
Ah, January – I had so many grand plans for you! What a beautiful, lovely, schedule I had worked up! I was raring to go, and then – of course – the unexpected happened, and life threw an obstacle my way. I got sick…for the first week and a half of January I did little else but…
I can’t believe December is over already…. A lot has happened for me in the last 31 days…allow me to recap… 1. At the very last minute, my family decided to take a vacation. Yup, we like to do these things by the seat of our pants. Now that we’re a family of adults, we have found that what we…