Sometimes I Forget

Passwords. Where I put my keys. Where I left my phone. Where I parked the car. What I went into a room for. That I’m alone when I’m speaking out loud. Song lyrics. That there’s bacon in the oven.* That I’ve still got coffee in my cup…and it’s gotten cold. To get up and move …

Crutch Words

Today, I want to talk about something called “Crutch Words”. If you’d asked me about what those were prior to my Whirlwind* tour of conventions and writer’s retreats, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you.  I’d have had a good guess, maybe, but that’s about all it would have been. A Crutch Word is …

Write

Before I get down into today’s post, I wanted to mention that I’ve got a Links page! Yes, There probably should have been one a long time ago.  What can I say:         (Still learning…)   I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about today. Some weeks, the topics come easy. Other …

Writing and Music Part 2

When I wrote my first post about writing and music (which you can find here) I thought I had said all that I had to say on the subject. Yeah, right. Simply thinking that I was done should have let me know there was more coming, sometime. Two posts on a topic don’t constitute the …

Just Don’t

I don’t have much to say today which may be a good thing. I woke up this morning to find three different stories coming at me from three different places depicting different kinds of ass-hattery and they all had one thing in common. They all revolved around some guy not liking what some woman did. …