Ben Turon—RIP

One of our cats, Ben, died this week. He’d been missing the last couple of days, and I went looking for him at the local vets and shelters today, but no luck. I had looked in the basement for him, but not well enough. Martin found him tonight lying on the carpet in his band [...]

Pregnancy Update—38 Weeks

Oh, I need a Tagamet after all that birthday cake!

The countdown begins! Little “Patagonia” is full term now, which means he could be born any time between now and Dec. 16, at which point my OB would induce. Three out of the four women in my birth class who’ve already had their babies had them [...]

It’s So You

I’m a terrible self-promoter. I think this book has been out for a couple of months already. Anyway, I’m one of the 35 women writing about fashion in this anthology, so go to Amazon
and buy a copy, or click on the Seal Press website
to read more about it. My essay is a chapter from my [...]

Fat is Fit?

So glad I packed on that extra 39 pounds …
According to Science Daily, it may be healthier to be overweight than to be normal weight:
“We found significantly increased all-cause mortality in the underweight and obese categories and significantly decreased all-cause mortality in the overweight category compared with normal weight. To gain further insight into these [...]

Writing update

Now a “short” writing update:
My goal of working two hours a day has been keeping me very busy. Although it may not seem like a lot of hours (and I get to take weekends off), if I miss one day, that means four hours the next, and that’s a lot. Included in “writing” though is [...]

Updates

I think I have to get used to short blog updates because once the baby is here, that’s all I’ll have time for. What I’ve been doing lately:
Writing 2+ hours/day. My “goal” is to work on on my book 10 hours per week. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s about all I can handle [...]