Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ

Spring began in November, but it wasn't until this week that color returned.  The winter was warm and dry, and Kansas turned brown instead of white.  Now green is emerging from the dun.  Dormant life bursts into bloom.  Flowers and insects swarm the grass, and rabbits party on the lawn once the sun goes down.  I have a feeling this is a brief transition leading to another brutal summer.

Narcolepsy is life in dreamtime, never fully awake and never fully asleep, coasting through a fog broken by scattered lanterns of full awareness.  A narcoleptic can dream while pretending to be awake.  She can carry on conversations and complete tasks, but her mind fades in and out of the mist of REM sleep.

Excessive sleepiness can overtake her at regular intervals or at random.  She will be alert and suddenly crash.  This does not mean that she falls asleep in her soup, but instead that she b...

Cats make lousy writing partners.  They are harsh critics who give their pompous opinions by shoving their butts in your face.  They prevent progress by sitting on your hands or keyboard when you are trying to type.  You begin to formulate a brilliant idea, but they decide they need more food immediately or they will starve to death, so that brilliant idea vanishes into the same memory void as the name of that one guy in that one movie with that thing.
Cats enjoy touching you and each other...

Why do people think it is within their rights to interfere with the rights of other people?  Why have groups of politicians declared war on half of the population?  Why are we the ones accused of being intolerant persecutors when we speak out against the religious zealots trying to take control of women and women's rights to their own bodies?  Why, why, why?

We can't win while the zealots are in charge.
The majority of women are responsible and hard-working.  We hold jobs or stay home and the c...

This is a piece I composed for piano while in high school  It became the base for my new Mayfly Requiem cover.  Check out my books and all of my new covers .
Abyss is one of my happy synesthesia words.  It is a feather drawn lightly across the skin on my arms.  Add a syllable and it becomes "abyssal", an ecstatic shiver and a feeling of warmth at the core.  I love how the meaning of the word clashes with the feelings generated by it.

Abyss is a deep darkness and a bottomless depth.  It is ...

We start today with a crash.

Turbotot was sitting on the couch when I went into the kitchen to get him a sippy.  I measured his medicine into the cup, added orange juice and water, and closed the lid.  I turned around to go back into the living room and fell on my face.  Turbotot had crept behind me and gotten underfoot again.  He was completely uninjured, but my knee twisted and screamed at me when I straightened it.  I sat on the couch for a few minutes while Turbotot climbed all over my leg...

I was four years old when I first sat at a piano intending to learn how to play.  Almost twenty-six years later, I still play.  I've had to modify which instruments I play due to my movement disorder.  When I lost most of my finger dexterity, I traded piano for percussion.  I currently play with the local civic band and orchestra, specializing in mallet percussion.  I also play clarinet and toured Europe playing bass clarinet with a youth symphony, but like the piano, my skills now suffer due...

You are not what you seem to be, Tesji, not at all.  You are caught in a web of stars, fire, and water, and the wind serenades you like a lost lover.


This is probably my favorite sentence from my rewrite of The Crystal Lattice last night.  I didn't get very far because I was finding it hard to focus.  The internet is distracting.  It doesn't really matter because I need to take this rewrite slowly and try to catch all of the problems.

We took the kids to the zoo.  It's always a bit of an adventure with a nursing baby and a hyper toddler, but everyone had fun.  We have a membership, so we can go whenever we want and today was perfect for it.  We got a new camera right before the baby was born, and spent some time experimenting with it today.


This guy wanted baby for lunch.On another note, my toddler has finally decided he like snap peas and pineapple after over a year of staring them down with disdain.  I guess persistence i...

 Desert sands, desert winds, desert fire. Aumua was earth and fire,the only one of the Web to be two lesser Elements at once. Heappeared empty, but he was not barren, for everywhere was life, lifeand death and frenzied existence hiding in the shade and in theshadows. He was dry but not dead, and life sprang from oases andlonely cacti. Aloes, jumping mice, miniature foxes, scorpions,snakes, palms, desert of the mind, desert of the soul. The AmariDesert was a refuge of wonderful, strange...