Update

Hello, all!  Sorry for the long absence.  I've had some medical and personal concerns for the past almost a year. I'm back, but this is going to have to be less personal and more professional from now on.  I'm working on another picture book manuscript currently, and I have some other projects underway.  All is in a state of transition and flux right now.  As soon as I have information about another published work, I will post it here for all to see.  In the meantime, be well.

Book Signing in Needles, CA

If you are planning to be in the Needles/Laughlin area July 22, 2010 (next week), please feel free to stop by the Needles Branch Library where I will be reading Silly Moments and signing books.  I hope to see you there!

Girl Cooties

I kissed my son goodnight just now.  And by that, I mean I gathered up all the love I had left in my chest after a long day of fighting a tooth infection after a night of restless sleep, and I offered it to him as if it were a bouquet of fragile lilacs freshly picked from a field untouched by ... wait, in order to be picked, they would have to touched by someone or something: human, machine, cat...  Okay, that doesn't work.  We'll just leave this at I kissed him goodnight.

And in response to my loving gesture, he said "Ew, girl cooties!"

Pause.  Let it sink in.  You here with me now?  Good, let's move forward.  Because this means...

I'm still a girl!  I'm not just an old and moldy mom!  I'm a girl.

Yep, I've still got it.  And I refuse to look at his comment as an insult.  He did smile when he said it.

May you all have cooties, either boy or girl, no matter how tired you are or how long your day was.  Good night!

Silly Moments is Now Released!

http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/silly-moments.htm

My first book has been released.  Hooray!  For ordering information, please visit the link above.  Thank you!

Galleys Ready!

I reviewed the galleys for Silly Moments last night, and I must say that I'm very excited!  After this week ends, I should have some time available for ... well, for breathing.  And that will be nice, too.

Coming Soon: Silly Moments

As far as I know, Silly Moments is still due out next month through Guardian Angel Publishing, so I'm excited about that, and many other positive changes in my life that are due to start rolling in and affecting each other like dominoes any second.  Please form a line to the right to be the first ones for autographed copies of Silly Moments, the first picture book from Anna C. Morrison, with art by the illustrious Marina Movshina.

Clearance Racks

I couldn't do it yesterday.  The sitting on my butt part: I couldn't do it.  I've been wanting some new clothes since returning to work after the surgery, and since I am not able to be as active as I would like, the new clothes need to be a little bit larger than the old clothes.  Not much.  But enough for me to breathe.  I wish I could just lose the weight, and believe me, I've been trying, but I can't walk enough to make a difference.  I have to be patient.  (So hard for me in ANY situation).

I've had my eye on some clothes on ebay for a while, and even earned a sweet deal on a polka dot rockabilly shirt that is just low cut enough to make me feel female again, but mostly I just get outbid.  Disappointing.

So, faced with stacks of papers to grade yesterday, and drying skies outside calling my name, I picked up my car from the oil change it desperately desired, and went to Target.  Oh, wow!  Everything was on sale!!!  I found all the tops I wanted for like, $2 to $6 and change.  Nice stuff, too.  I couldn't believe it.

But I couldn't find shoes, so I went to Kohl's.  They were having clearance sales, too!  And I found shoes.  And pants!  Everywhere, pants!  the kind I like, in dark colors (because they really do make me seem less fat, I believe it, I do) and in styles that don't look super dorky with tennis shoes (that I have to wear every day because of my ankles, possibly...forever).  And the pants were under $10 each pair.

If I had bought everything I wanted when I wanted it before these sales, I would have spent more than I could have afforded.  But yesterday, I was able to walk away with a whole new wardrobe for as much as I would normally have paid just for a pair of ortho shoes at retail price.

By waiting, I got the deals.  Maybe there's something to be said for patience, after all.

Nah...couldn't be.