Good times + Art Everyday

Happy & merry to all of you!
It has been a BUSY week. (Thank you for all the well wishes!) I’ve somewhat recovered from the most horrible sinus infection/fever combo I have ever had. The word misery does not even serve it justice. Seriously awful.
But, I’m mostly better, and we had a wonderful Christmas. […]

Feverish brain fuzz

I keep thinking I’ll wake up and feel better–but whatever I have decided to kick it to me. I am STILL sick with a fever, and feel generally misearable. My brain feels like a dust bunny. I cannot think straight, let alone post anything coherent. Gah.

And so the week is gone

I’ve been sick. A major yucky head cold + fever combo that has left me wimpy and whining watching re-runs on TV. I hate being sick. Especially around the holidays. To distract you from the abundant LACK of posting going on around here, pretty pictures:

My boys whispering in the early morning light, while I got […]

Breath.

Morning crowds up against the glass like a dark gorilla; icicles hang sharp and pointed against the rosy pale of dawn. Day has come too soon all week. I’ve been fighting it, staying up late and then hating that first milky light spilling across the sky; never feeling like I get everything done. Then I […]

I miss you

This week has been crappy/busy. Every day filled with eighty-nine OTHER things to do, so that every time I sit down at the computer it’s usually nearing midnight and I’m officially mushy headed. I am looking forward to the weekend: to skiing on Sunday, and writing, and posting, and catching up with all of your […]

satisfied

Outside a wood pecker hammers into the trunk of a poplar and the sky is the color of snow. I finished my manuscript yesterday, and couldn’t have felt better about it. The stories work, I think, and they’ve begun to carry themselves, the characters leading me to new discoveries and scenes. It’s how I […]