The very word makes me want to go lie down, but every writer who wants more than just her spouse and mother to read her book (much less buy it), needs to have a platform. A platform is what I bring to the table, a promise to publishers that I have a network, a...
The Packrat Chronicles
There's a reason my family calls my house "Li-Mart." In recent weeks, I have supplied the following without leaving the confines of my home: **298 Danish Krone to my mother. In August, she goes to Copenhagen to visit friends (a family that includes the woman I'm named...
No Seedling Left Behind. Not a One.
5/11/2010 UPDATE: DIVIDE & CONQUER COUNTDOWN Four days and counting before the 7th Annual Driveway Plant Sale (Saturday, May 15th, 9:00 AM). Things get a little crazy at this point, and I have to hold back from digging up the rest of the yard and adding it to the...
Scenes from the Abattoir
Approximately 47 seconds after I got the back porch painted -- giving it a brand new start in life, a chance to reinvent itself from impenetrable junk repository into organized junk repository -- The Beloved Husband stepped in. "I'll reorganize it," TBH selflessly...
Incivility across the aisles
Last night, I was not only deeply offended by Joe Wilson's (R-SC) outburst during the President's Health Care address, but I also wondered if he would have felt so free to be that rude to a white President. Offended citizens jammed Wilson's website within minutes, and...