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My place to think with my fingers and who knows just what might pop up. |
| I'm just getting this all set up and I'm praying that I'm doing this right. I'm not sure just what all I'll talk about in here, so who knows. |
| My husbands recovery process has been pretty slow. He is still unable to work and because the injury happened at home in his off hours he is not eligible for L&I AND because he CAN'T seek a new job he's not eligible for unemployment either! Thankfully, my son (who will be 30 soon and still lives at home...in the basement) finally got a job again, so that helps. The rest of the load is all on me. I've been trying to sell things on eBay, but so far I've only sold two things. I have been playing music with one of my bands and I've even competed in several fiddle competitions and brought home some prize money and I'm still teaching fiddle so we're keeping the essential bills paid. Life goes on, but my writing has been a struggle. But, I'm making an effort to get back on track. Wish me luck! |
| We'll I'm not sure who keeps up with my blog, but my crazy world has gone totally nuts! My dear husband is going to be out of work for the next three months because he cut his hand severely and just had surgery yesterday. Then, after having a heart attack in 2012 at the age of 49, I seem to be having trouble again and could be looking at surgery in the next few weeks too. So...so much for having money to pay my membership. I will be very frustrated, but have house payment, lights and water are pretty important. I love this forum and everyone here. |
| Well, I'm thinking about changing my title to "Bronchitis Kid"...I'm just getting over yet another bout of the crud, which makes twice in three months! I'm not real happy about the time in bed. Rest is nice, but I'm falling so far behind on things that I want and need to get done that I just see things stacking up around me and it only makes me more frustrated. It also seems that when I can't breath well, I can't think well either which meant that no poetry or story writing got done! It seems like every time I set some goals for myself, something comes and rips up the idea. Needless to say, I need to get back on track. So, here I am, once again saying "I'm back"! |
It's Been A LONG Time! I can't believe that it had been so long since I was here, but auto dating doesn't lie! We moved back to Washington state (my state or origin) in 2010 so I could take care of my mother. Her health had been on a steady decline since 2007 and my dad finally admitted to being unable to do everything by himself anymore. So, here we are. My sweet mother passed away just before Christmas the same year. I didn't get to spend that much more time with her, but the time I had was precious. I had promised her many years before that I would never let her see the inside of a nursing home and I kept that promise.  After my mother passing we lived with my father for another ten months when he finally got tired of us being in his house. He had bought another house with the plan of fixing it up and flipping it, but instead decided that it was the perfect place for us. So here we are in a three bedroom home with a full basement, living room, formal dinning room, large kitchen, a single car garage, a carport, back deck, and one bathroom on a corner lot with no yard to speak of. The "no yard" is not much of a problem since my husband really doesn't like yard work; however, the "one bathroom" is an issue everyday since my 29 year old son is living in our basement and two or three of his friends always seem to be here. The only other complaint I have about the house is that there is no dishwasher except for a pair of hands which seem to do ninety eight percent of the work!  Needless to say, I feel like my life has been a little upside down.Musically,    life has been good. I am a private fiddle instructor and I play in a bluegrass band. This does seem to annoy my husband since the operative word I use to describe my job is "play". So he feels that I'm not working since I don't go there every day and put in at least eight long hours. However, when I'm giving lessons I pull in $25 an hour for private lessons. At least, between the two of us we keep the bills paid. But, to make a long story shorter, he works, I play and it all works out in the end. As for my writing, it has been a sporadic adventure. I will have a spurt of inspiration and then a seriously long dry spell. It's not that I don't have ideas, it's just that getting things down on paper has been difficult. Time seems to slip by me through the day and where it goes I haven't figure out. I could just admit that fact that I tend to keep too many things on my plate, but then that is just too easy. Instead I would like to say that I just find the need to stay very busy. With that said though, I believe that my husband working nights is going to help out a bunch since he isn't distracting me with his neediness. By the time he gets home I'm ready to settle down and relax, so then we can cuddle, watch a little tv and enjoy each others company. Well, I believe I'm off to a good start of being back here. I'm going to do all I can to stay up with things now. I've been doing reviews and have some contests picked out. So look for me and if you don't see me over the week, remind me that I should be writing! |
| I am an incurable fiddle player who is always looking for interesting tunes. This leads me to another point about myself . . . I've been playing since I was nine, which adds up to 37 years with tunes running wild through my head. In this time I have learned thousands of tunes and in the past few years have forgotten more than I care to admit. All of this has brought me to my current obsession which is writing a (or series of) fiddle tune book! I have other writing which I need to be doing since I need to have something written for our 2009 anthology, but I must have tunnel vision because the fiddle is all I can think about right now. (A little OCD goes a long ways!) It's been so bad, that I haven't even been checking my email - anywhere! Well, I guess that's it for now -- I've got to get back to my notation! |
| I finally have a stable internet connection with AT&T. It puts me with yet one more bill to worry about but I had to do something. I've been so frustrated with everything. I've got a lot of work to do too. The Rome Area Writers will be putting out our '09 anthology during the Georgia Literary Festival which is set for October. This means that we have to have our submissions in by June. Of course, we're just now getting our '08 volume back from the printers. Looks like I've got to get some writing done. My mind really hasn't been on writing though because my daughter Kryssie is expecting a baby boy the end of August. So I've been a little wrapped up in grand-baby stuff. I'm just glad to be back! |
| I've been absent, Yes! Well, my internet at home is not working at all now. It's about to drive me crazy. So, here I am at the library trying to do my taxes and check up with everything all at once. So far it's not working out real well. The computer here is so slow I could send snail mail faster! But at least I'm online. I'm still writing and working on a new plot for a middle reader novel. Of course, I'm still writing poetry. So don't worry I haven't forgotten anyone here. If I get money back on my taxes I'll have internet at home once more! |
| I've been absent, Yes! Well, my internet at home is not working at all now. It's about to drive me crazy. So, here I am at the library trying to do my taxes and check up with everything all at once. So far it's not working out real well. The computer here is so slow I could send snail mail faster! But at least I'm online. I'm still writing and working on a new plot for a middle reader novel. Of course, I'm still writing poetry. So don't worry I haven't forgotten anyone here. If I get money back on my taxes I'll have internet at home once more! |
| Well, I've had trouble with my internet and today has been the first time I've been able to get back here. Thank heavens my son-in-law is a computer geek, but they don't come up to visit very often, so I couldn't get anything done. Anyway, I'm here, but now my upgrade has run out, and since I was laid off from work I don't have the funds to pay for an upgrade right now. I'm pleading for some help. I hate to ask, and I'm going to pay for a year just as soon as I can, but until then I'm stuck. So, I'm sending out the S.O.S. |
| I very recently took a trip to my favorite place in town which is our local library. I can poke around in the stacks for hours and never miss the outside world! Anyway, that is not my point --- I was searching for Robert Frost through the mess or replacing the carpets throughout the entire library. The shelves were out of place which made finding anything difficult. I finally located Robert Frost and then I ran across the section of Modern American Poetry. Since I am always looking for inspiration and I love to find new writers, I decided to randomly grab some books of poetry. When I got home I was so eager to settle into an evening of reading, but what I found only made me discussed and angry. What has happened to poetry? There were "poems" (ha) that didn't make any sense at all! When I read about the authors I was even more frustrated because these people are not just writing and teaching workshops, most of these writers are also professors. I checked out 10 separate books of poetry, one is an anthology. The only book that I found redeeming factors in was the anthology -- it does contain some poetry that follows form and style. The other 9 books were terrible! I have learned so much about poetry here at WDC and it's wonderful. This is the best writing forum that I have found, and I have looked. The members here care about what they write. I just wish I had a better internet connection so I could spend more time here! |
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