Ice

Very cold this morning.  Temp in the car said 22 f.  Ice on the windshield.  The ice wasn't thick, and it wasnt a solid sheet.  Just enough ice to make driving a little tricky, and yet not enough to impede progress. The ice crystals looked like snowflakes that had been frozen, somehow, in a perfect …

Rejection

Another day...another publisher passes on my book.  I've always heard that if you want to be a writer, you better get used to rejection. Easier said than done, in my case.  Not that I'm such a huge fan of my own writing.  It's taken me a long time to believe that I could use my words …

Big Clean

And away we go! A new year has started and just about everybody I know is in some state cleaning up, cleaning out, dismantling, organizing, and in general, shifting out of holiday mode, and back into the mindset of school and work.  Now most of you know how I feel about resolutions, but for those …