A surprisingly hard act to follow! Some personal history: although I've traditionally written a goodly portion of first drafts by hand ...

It has come to my attention that my approach to writing often shares similarities with a bratty child's attitude toward bed time. ...

This, my friends, is why I should not be allowed to roam Staples unsupervised, especially at back to school time. In my defense, at least...

A rose I drew awhile back, and almost immediately hid from public  view,  because it's...shoddy. But you know? Shoddy is OK. Th...

I planted some pretty flowers and they're not dead yet! See? Blithering, as promised! For the last few months, I've felt like ...

Musical things I did this week:  1. Went to two concerts: one jazz/swing, with Paul Anastasio, an excellent fiddler (he played with Aslee...

This is the way my mind works.

I'm getting a bunch o' ink samples, mostly Diamine.  It's my first time trying this service of theirs , and I'm pretty exci...

1. Curiosity Last night I went to bed way too late, after rigging up a temporary new drawband for the Lettera 33 out of beading wire stuff....

Whew , what a week.  I say this in both good and bad senses, but in all senses, it took away from my word production. To begin with, las...

Well, I'm officially behind in NaNo world. This doesn't usually happen to me. I'm not one of those obnoxious overachievers wh...

So...back, for a moment, to the meandering writing-about-writing essay posts instead of yet another UJTU. For no logical reason and no perso...

By rights, today I should be posting something deep and thoughtful about the young woman who inspired my blog's name, the Little Flower ...

As Speculator pointed out in response to my whine last week, often doing more reading can help one out of a writing slump. With that in min...

I didn't write yesterday and haven't written much today because I JuST got braces. And had four teeth out. I've got crowding i...