Category: Musings

  • Why today of all days?

    My cell phone doesn’t get that many calls. Aside from calls from the Boyfriend, and occasional calls from the roommate, it mostly remains silent. That’s fine 364 days of the year. But there’s one day that I want the phone to ring: Golden Heart finalist call day. In 2011, my call came bright and early, […]

  • My take on time management

    Let’s get something straight: I might not be the best choice to talk about time management. As I sat preparing the remarks about time management I was supposed to deliver — less than 12 hours before I was set to deliver them — I certainly felt like a fraud. Then I remembered there’s a lot […]

  • March already?

    If it weren’t such a cliche, I’d ask where the heck the year has gone. It seems impossible that March is already upon us — and not just March, but mid-March. What happened to January and February? Lost to a haze of working, working out, reading, tweeting, writing and rewriting, I suppose. With the help […]

  • Link love redux

    Link love redux

    There’s no shortage of reading material on the ol’ information superhighway. Here are a few of the links I’m loving right now: — I wish I’d seen Nathan Bransford’s post on the art of being unsentimental about your characters months ago. Might have saved me from having to muse about being too nice. Then again, maybe not. […]