A suitcase is staring at me right now instead of my dogs. Sigh... The pups are off at a sleepover with Kristen and Arg, and I am packed and ready to make a last minute trip up to the great Northwest for Uncle Tony's funeral. It's a very somber affair, to be sure...but...

I'm on a roll, folks. A sushi roll. More accurately, tonight it was a...pho roll? That doesn't make an friggin sense. But, I was on a roll with work stuff, and I did also have pho. Mmmmmmm...phoooooo... Goodby to January. The first month of 2018 has come and gone...

I was BACK today, y'all. 100%. Praise be to baby g. I sat down to write today, and by the time I looked up and took a breath, 90 minutes had gone by. Then I took a break, and sat down for another 30 or so and finished the scene I was working on. I even started work on...

Today, life happened. Or, more precisely, the building happened. I remain undeterred. I still got a good amount of stuff done...not at much as I wanted, to be sure, which would cause me great anxiety in recent days/weeks...but not today. Today, I resolved to not get...

Coco is so freaking snuggly. She just sighed and snuggled into both me and the Ho at the same time. How does she do that? I had a badass day today. Holy wow. I got everything done I needed to. It was still hard with the writing, BUT...I had a 3-hour block in which to...

I do *finally* feel like I'm starting to get a better handle on my work. I know it's odd to say that given today was an "off" day, but that's the way that I'm feeling right now. It really started after putting in a solid two hours this evening at the end of my day...

Josh and I watched The Motion Picture tonight for Two Guys One Trek...and it was dope. TMP is not a perfect movie, by ANY means. It can drag. It's super, super, ultra "cerebral" Star Trek in the geekiest, most this-is-why-star-trek-sucks-and-star-wars-rules kind of...

I had a good writing day today. Like...a legit good writing day. There was a scene I was really struggling with...and I fixed it today. It's fixed. I can feel it in my bones. I know it's better. It's the feeling I've been missing so much in this whole freaking book,...

Tonight...I feel grateful. Not really sure why, what prompted it, but I feel so grateful for my life. Believe it or not, through all the sickness, and the writing crisis, and everything else...January has been a good month. It was the month that I needed. I wrote...

I had another GOOD day today...it was nearly hijacked, which in the last few weeks would have completely thrown me off...but I didn't let it totally derail me. I stuck to my schedule. I didn't let anxiety get out of control. I was even able to catch up on work on the...