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A Scene from ASSASSIN

…which I probably promised you MONTHS ago! Bear with me, folks. I’m a damn busy woman. So, here’s a second scene from Assassin: Book 2 in the Kick-Ass Girls Club series. The first part is here and this one is actually from chapter 2 of Assassin. ______________________________________________________ I’ve only been dating Killian for a few […]

Tortellini Soup with Vegetables

Once again, my good friend Deni has bestowed upon us one of her great recipes. Let’s see what she’s got for us today. Tortellini Soup with Vegetables Ingredients: 3 chicken breasts cut into small (1/2 inch) cubes 3 tablespoons olive oil ¼ cup Italian seasoning 4 garlic cloves minced 1 onion roughly chopped 2 cups […]

In a Hurry Much?

…and now you can’t login to your computer or website. People, slow down when typing your passwords before calling me to tell me you can’t login. You’ll get it wrong several times. Hell, I get it wrong at times simply because I’m in a hurry, rushing to get that password in so I can move to […]

Anne Bradstreet–The Author to Her Book

Good morning, class. Here’s an interesting poem by Anne Bradstreet, which I had to write a paper on for my American Literature class a while back, and I’d posted this on the old Blogger site, so you’ll see comments from that. The Author to Her Book Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after […]

All Hail…

…for I am the Victorian goth queen. Okay, so there’s this guy at work whom I remember when he first started. He was goth and now he looks Amish. I’m not kidding. Anyway, last week, I decided to look like a girl, meaning I wore a skirt and basically dressed nice. Black maxi skirt, black […]

FYI on Spring Copy Edits

…because Spring Break, yo! I will be unavailable for copy and line edits March 14-23 so I can work on my own writing/editing. My editor has promised to have my book Dusk of Death back to me by then, and I can’t wait to work on it. I’d like to release it this summer, especially at Phoenix Comicon. […]

Y’know, It’d Be Nice…

…if the guys who dip their fingers into the network and systems would freakin’ tell the rest of us just what in the hell they’re doing once in a while. You know what I’m talking about if you work in IT. Programmers, et. al., don’t bother to tell you “oh hey, by the way, we […]

I Forget…

…how difficult and distorted and cruel life can be at times, and how some of that is my fault. Most know that Umi (my mother–yes, I have to remind you now and then) has the beginning stages of dementia, or as we like to call it, demential (thanks for the typo, Zia). It helps to […]

Ready, Aim, Fire!

Last week, during a rare lull in calls, one of my co-workers broke out the Nerf guns. She, of course, aimed into the boss’s office first. You try to not scream when one of those bullets comes flying over the cubicle wall at you while you’re on the phone. Of course, you realize, this means […]

Hilarity Ensues…

…in the form of ignorance when it comes to computers. So last week, I heard this from another cubicle: “There is a physical power button, ma’am . . .  no, not the dell logo.” And this was my reaction… It gets better… “Ma’am, what kind of computer is it? No. Do you have a tower? […]