For May 2015, I'm on a one-month hiatus from my blog, but I'll be back in June 2015. (I'm one of those people who keeps her promises.)
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National Grammar Day
Wednesday, March 4th is National Grammar Day and I'm talking to all you Americans. Let's recognize National Grammar Day. For instance, let's spend just one day not ending every third sentence with the word "at" as in "Where you at?" "Leave it where it's at." "Where...
Why Not Blog?
Dec. 26, 2014 Fortunately, I don't let not having a blogging topic stop me from posting. This makes hitting my ten-posts-a-month goal easier. Maybe one day I'll raise the bar to ten interesting posts a month. But probably not. This is a photo from about a month ago,...
No One Cares If I Blog
It's January 29th and I'm facing my personal blog crunch time: my goal is ten posts a month and this is just the eighth. That means it's time for me to post when I'm not feeling very passionate about any particular subject, but so it goes. It's time to post. I realize...
Blogging, Not Perfection
I went through the titles of all my blog posts (yes, every one) to tag the ones that are about my music, and realized that I've been taking my blog way too seriously. I used to post a few times a day, not a few times a month. And lately I've been posting mostly when I...
10th Birthday of My Blog!
Today my blog is 10 years old! I'm excited and proud because this blog represents my longest commitment and the creative outlet I've never abandoned. Since I started this blog I've been through two apartments, five jobs, been married and divorced, I've gotten down to...
An Untold Story
Maya Angelou said, "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." A year ago I knew my mother didn't have long to live, but she didn't want anyone to know, so I had to blog about death without letting on why I was focused on that. That was very...
La Bloga
One of the blogueras at La Bloga posted Chicana/Latina Hair: A Discussion about Identity and Your Pelo Journey and she linked my recent post on having short hair. Amelia Montes wrote a much more thorough and thoughtful post than mine, so take a look. Thanks, Amelia!
Sometimes Art Makes Money
Seven years ago I recorded a bunch of original songs from when I was a singer/songwriter. In 2013 I finally had them mastered, copyrighted them as an album and started selling them digitally on CD Baby (my album is called Going of Age and is only available as a...
The Query Has Flown!
I just sent my first query letter to my first potential agent with my first manuscript. Since it can take up to two months for an agent to get back to you, it will probably be a slow process of trying a couple of different agents before I get on with self-publishing....
Querying
Image from valeriekingbooks.com These days I consider my manuscript finished, so I'm excited to be working on my first query letter. That's the letter you send an agent to get them interested in your book. A friend of mine with a lot of publishing knowledge listened...
The Dog Ebook Lives
I did it: I spent five hours on Sunday working on my dog ebook! It felt great. I once again plugged into memories, revelation and syntax, smoothing out the paragraphs and fleshing out details. I felt grateful that I didn't have children, pets or even a husband to...
Long Weekend
My employer just announced that we're getting July 3rd and 4th off this year. I felt excited about this four-day weekend at first. But now it sinks in: what will I do with four days off? There was a time when I'd spend such a weekend with my husband, getting away from...
I’m Back on a Laptop!
I don't know why, but my Comcast modem stopped talking to my Apple laptop weeks ago and I've had to do everything on my iPad and iPhone when I'm at home. Yes, I'm one of those Mac people, but I'm not an asshole about it. There's enough in life for me to be an asshole...
I’M ON iTUNES
This is my CD cover (the photo was taken in 2005 at age 39. I'm 47 now). My first and final album is up on iTunes right now! I can't tell you how excited I am. You can buy the whole thing or individual songs, but I encourage you to go to CD Baby.com to actually...