It has been almost a month since I last posted, but I just wanted to let everyone know I’m still alive!

Sometimes the deadlines, deliverables, and demands of the universe pile up and pile on.

I’m slowly digging my way out–hopefully I’ll be back to my regular posting schedule soon.

Just so you don’t …

So I was just getting used to 80 degree F temps in March, when the skies opened up and unleashed a torrent of hail, flash floods, and lightening strikes that have the power in my house going up and down like bad strobe lighting. Hurray for country living.

Yes, that’s hail coming down in the pic.

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A friend of mine, who writes a lot and is now moving to get their work published, asked me for some help on some writing procedural matters. Not information on how to …