Poor puppy. She’s limping around the house now and can’t jump up on the bed. Brett feels terribly guilty no matter how much I tell him that spaying is a *good* thing. Especially for a mixed-breed, strange-looking, unidentifiable dog who will probably make babies that look even more complicated.
I haven’t updated much because I’ve been so busy rewriting my sample chapter. I scrapped the original organization for the book and so it’s going to be a lot of work. I go the rough draft for the chapter done, now I need to edit it, add some quotes, edit it again, reorganize the rest of the chapters, rewrite the “chapter overview”, rewrite the proposal, rewrite the content page, print the 80+ page proposal again, edit the whole thing one more time, write my cover letter, send it off. In any one of those steps is a myriad of other little steps just waiting to trip my ass up.
But it’s fun.
I have two kids and a delightfully odd husband, Brett. My children are Noah (born to us in 1997) and Madison (born to her first mom, Pennie, in 2004 and brought to our family through a domestic, open adoption). They are my inspiration and also the reason I don't get more done around here.
I'm a writer and sometimes I get published, which is a nice thing. I write for joy, I write for money and when I'm very lucky, both things happen at the same time. My work appears in national publications including Yoga Journal, Disney's Family.com, Utne, Wondertime, Brain Child and Salon. Currently I am working on a book about my daughter's adoption and seeking representation for the proposal. I also own Smart Cookie Communications with my husband.