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This is My Life – For Now!

It used to be that I hated doing the same thing day after day. I used to want variety in my days, embracing surprises and random acts. Just doing something different every day.   These days, however, I am more likely to embrace familiarity. I have the same expectations for the same things during my day when it is the week, as well as when it is the weekend.   During the week, I look forward to another day of the following things:   Writing SOMETHING (a blog post, short story, poetry, an article, etc.) Doing work for Twisted Dreams Press/Dreamweaver Press Working on the SPARREW newsletter Working on book reviews   I also try to squeeze in working on one of my book WIPs as well as doing research, either for a book or an article, during the week. But sometimes, I don’t have enough energy left to do that.   Of course, I do other things besides that stuff. I’m outside caring for my plants, on the couch reading other books or magazines, movin...
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With Gratitude

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  They say that it takes a village to make things happen. But in my case, it took 40 people to help me to afford the cost of undergoing corrective eye surgery.   Last year, during the summer, I noticed that I was having vision problems. I like to look up at the moon, and during such occasions, I would see a black spot in the center when looking at the moon with my right eye. I thought this was unusual. I checked with my left eye, and there was no black spot. But with my right eye, there was. This troubled me, so I started testing the vision with my right eye in other circumstances. I would try to look at things only with my right eye, but what I saw was blurry.   Don’t get me started on the many mishaps I ran into when trying to drive.   So, at one point, I texted my husband, “I think there is something wrong with my right eye.”   I made an appointment with the ophthalmologist and got my vision checked. Turned out that I had Stage 3 glaucoma in...
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Books Read in March

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    March was a VERY busy month, both on a personal and professional level.   For Twisted Dreams Press: We are in the final stretch of wrapping up the Week of Terrors anthology series. The books filled up fast as we got closer to reaching the end! Now only the Saturday book is left, with just four spots left! And speaking of anthologies, I got an idea for another one, which I hope to put out a call for after we finish reading stories for Slasher Saturday. Since my business partner has been in the hospital since December and we are NOT discussing anything related to the press while she is there, I have yet to receive a response to the email I sent to her about this new anthology idea. (She is not reading emails sent to her press email address until she returns to work.) So I can’t really say too much about it until I hear from her.   I received the usual round of rejections on poems and short stories submitted this month, but I also had quite a bit of accept...
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