Yesterday, and old friend and his family from the east coast was in town, and another former-east-coast friend and I met up them for coffee and donuts (since it is still Channukah, and fried foods are Traditional). And that probably would have been it, except another local friend and her daughter came down with minor …
Photos from Saturay’s randomactsorg #ActLocal, cleaning up Seattle’s Katie Black’s Garden.  5 hours of hard work, but as we went along, a dozen or more people walked their dogs through the park, stopped, looked around, and said “thank you, you guys are amazing.†And you know what?  We are.  :-) Most of the crew (minus …
One short story has been handed in, awaiting editor’s response, one short story under sail – or would be, if there was any wind – and one novel due in 15 days and we’re going to make it, one way or another, by dog. And a client manuscript on the desk, and another one on …
Cool and drizzly and dreary on the lovely spring day. The birds are twittering, the cats are snoozing, and the foghorns are speaking to each other again. I had not been aware, previously, that foghorns could convey exasperation and rudeness quite so clearly as they do. Slogging along on many thing that need to be …
Saturday, I hauled myself out of town to take a meeting. Â If anything comes of that meeting, y’all will be the third to know. Â Then I came home and was a slug on the sofa. Â Sunday’s been Writers’ Cafe and more work on the cracktastic project, and now all the words I didn’t get written …
This weekend, I am not at ECCC or at the Supernatural convention happening in town.  Mainly because I didn’t get my act together in time to deal with either.  So it goes.  The weekend seems to be filled with Stuff to Do, anyway.  Imagine that.  :-) Life is chaotic, and a little stressy, but good.  This diagram …
You know you’re a city dweller when… this morning at 7am there were individuals having a music party down in the not-an-alley* behind my building. Â And my only thought was “not my choice of music, but not bad” rather than “these crazy kids why’re they blasting music at 7am on a Sunday?” Â And then someone …
Taken w/ an iPad mini camera, so a little fuzzy on the edges…. but yeah.  This was the view from my balcony this morning.  Does. Not. Suck. Meanwhile, there’s been major breakthrough on plotting of The Devil’s West #2, also a possible (working) title. And some days you look at your writing and think, “man, …
Where “this” is a leave of absence from NYC. In December, I’m packing up self, cats, and a limited (!) number of books, and hauling cross-country to Seattle, where I will take up residence for a year (or two). No, I’m not abandoning NYC. I still own my apartment – a friend is subletting, a …