Yes, I’ve had trouble blogging lately. You’d be right to assume a certain amount of it is blog fatigue, but another culprit is at work as well. Namely, my eyesight.
It seems I can’t work at my laptop for any significant length of time without eyestrain in the form of blurred vision. Now, I don’t think [...]

If you ask me, five weeks away from blogging is absence enough. Right after I posted the book trailer for Training Desire, I traveled by car to central Illinois to visit my dad who relocated there this past winter. He neighbors with my late mother’s younger brother and sister and my down-the-street cousins, so to [...]

It grips us, this cold, and I try to seal myself off from it. I stay indoors to avoid breathing it, to avoid the headache and asthma that threaten at first breath. I close my curtains at night, a barrier that deters the cold and insulates me in warmth. Yet as I sit in relative [...]

then you know I’ve been itching since last week and can’t see my doctor until tomorrow afternoon. I’m not sure how it happened, but something triggered a sizable eczema outbreak. (Remember what I said about the need for cotton undies not too long ago at Pursed Lips?)
It started on my hands, just a dot here [...]

when I don’t write often enough. I start having vivid dreams. Several a night, and they keep me from sound sleep. It’s as if my mind must create and if I fail to produce enough fiction, it will do it for me. It’s so weird.

It shows how ingrained the creative process is in me. When [...]

then, the very week it was going to be in the 70s and 80s for the first time? Bam! Head cold — major head cold. I spent four grueling days on the couch, cough drops and tissues my only company, and although I felt better over the weekend, I still needed two naps a day [...]

An author should never admit such a thing; it probably borders on sacrilege. But it’s true. Words fail me, and it’s because I’m not exactly sure how to welcome you to my new author site.
Spun off from Pursed Lips, my long-running weblog about sex and culture, it certainly does all the things you’d expect of [...]