“You are particularly flammable and when a rocket goes off next to you, you go up in flames.” I’m not saying who said it.  I’m not saying what it’s about.  I’m just saying it has something to do with the creative process. nuf said

I am awake now, 1:08 am, just me and Butterscotch the hamster.  Everyone else is asleep and we are wide awake moving about in our little hamster cages.  Mine is the front room of our apartment, the room where everything happens, the livingroom/kitchen/diningroom/playroom/media/office/den/foyer room that seems to be shrinking as My Kid gets bigger.  Moving [...]

Here I am piddling around with my blog again (avoiding necessary housework) and listening to real writers chat on NPR when my New Years Resolution was supposed to be for me to spend my time with a different kind of, more involved kind of, turn the radio off and think in silence kind of writing. [...]

I sat down to write at the computer and wrestle with the anxiety I feel in the face of a new project.  The anxiety has nothing to do with the creative process and everything to do with the schedule tweaking and changes.  Dinner, homework, school pick-up and drop-off all must be considered and coordinated in [...]

Listening to NPR as I wash dishes.   A Harvard doctor explains how using a checklist can prevent errors and save lives in hospitals.  I’m thinking about FLYLADY and my  mother’s to-do lists and the clipboard we used to check the instruments in the engine room every hour when I worked as a deckhand and checking props [...]

I’m going over my new calendar and thinking about commitments.   My Kid will finally be taking a dance class again and is registered for indoor soccer.  I am considering some workshops and new projects for myself. But, I have the same old New Years resolutions of wanting to do more exercising, more cooking, more cleaning, [...]

It’s New Years Eve.  So much has been said about this decade that for lack of a better name is being called the post 9/11 decade. Remember Seattle’s public Millennium Celebrations that got cancelled because of a terrorist plot.  Remember the sight gag on late night TV, Seattle’s New Year’s Celebration as a few guys [...]

Yeah!  Happy Happy nothing to prove.  Friend from Seattle who grew up in Montana–Hey!  I grew up in Montana.  No expectations.  Drink wine  Put ornaments on the Christmas tree  Eat dinner:) Happy Happy Happy Time for bed:)