My boss and his wife just welcomed their second child (and first son) into the world yesterday. I’ll tell you what, that kid has been born into a world that already has Blu-Ray. How exciting is that? He totally saved time bypassing Beta, VHS and DVD!!!! So, you know, aside from that, I’m a little […]
Technology Confuses Author on Thera-Flu: News at 11
I have a wonderful friend and delightful fellow author, the prolific Dorien Grey, who shares my curiosity and childlike tantrums about technology. It’s a blessing in disguise because my partner has a childlike curiosity about technology that he loves to see me fly into tantrums about. It bothered him in the beginning. Now it just […]
Eternal Life Could Only Be Screwed Up By Your Kid
My freshman English professor at Grand Valley State University once told us that we always think we’ll live forever. Yet, if you look at history, it makes for a pretty strong argument that we’re not going to live forever on this earth. Logic was never my strong point, but even I got the gist of […]
I’ll Dine With Him, But I Won’t Sleep With Him
It took me the better part of the weekend between getting the place ready for my mother-in-law’s impending visit, taking dad for drives and then not grinding my teeth because of allowing the behavior attributed to Alzheimer’s to get the better of me–and I didn’t win many of those battles the last three days–but I […]
Five of the Seven Stages Of Hell (aka Why My Eye Is Twitching)
My eye started twitching over the weekend. I’m not sure if it’s because work had been a bit stressful, because I had to break a personal rule and go to Wal-Mart to buy the latest Def Leppard, because my guy was moving rather far away for work, because my father had started telling me yet […]
We’re Just Like Everybody Else: A Week in the Life
Last week was one of those rare times when my guy was home for a whole 9 days in a row. It just doesn’t happen very often and I do miss those stretches. Not at first, but only because he’s used to staying up until midnight–two hours past my bedtime–and he’s somewhat accident prone. Bumping […]
Geminis Are The Hottest In Bed And I’m A Gemini!
It was 1977 when my birthday fell on Fathers Day and my parents informed me–as a joke–that I couldn’t celebrate my birthday that year because I wasn’t a father. Ultimately, the joke was on them. At the time, however, I was furious. It was unfair. And I couldn’t find it written down anywhere that this […]
Confessions Of A Not-So-Teenage-Writer
I had the distinction of turning 40 last year around this time and I’ve been doing some reflecting back on it. Picture it, Sicily, 1970… Sorry, wrong series. That and I’m half German, so, you know, huuuuuuuuuuge schnitzel! Anyway, I was–a year ago–waiting for Gaylias: Operation Thunderspell to be released, busy planning the book launch […]
I May Be Fragile, But My Friend From San Diego Will Roger You Senseless!
A friend from San Diego flew in a week and a half ago to attend our Pride Fest and he stayed with me for a couple of days. Wonderful guest, too! Then again, I’ll say that about anybody who likes what I make for breakfast; Banana Split pancakes. But the stories he tells… That man […]
Now THAT’S Funny! Well, Kinda Sorta. Mostly.
I have a pretty good idea when I stick my foot in my mouth. The biggest subtle hint is the look on someone’s face; squishy, irritated, uglyish and typically attempting to blurt several responses all at the same time, yet usually never finding their way into intelligible words. And then sometimes there’s the less-than-subtle hints. […]
