November 15-16, 2009:

Sunday I spent the day in lovely vegetating mode. Read more of Shiver, gathered stories for a collection. Lay in bed thinking and came up with another collection idea, watched tv. That sort of day. The kind most people have on a weekend but writers and artists and freelancers rarely do.

Monday began early with a consultation with a handyman, a go-get-'em sweet guy about the age of my kids who is eager to get to work on a lot of the small and then larger projects this old house needs.

Then off t...