Instead of resolutions, I'm making new year declarations for 2022: Finish My Novel (for real I mean it) Really finish the never-finished novel. In case you are playing along at home, the last time I posted here was a year ago, with an update that I had sent my novel to a … [Read more...]
Happy 2022 Agoura Hills!
It's been a while since I posted here—I'll confess, I've been busy with other things and most of my activity has been posted in the Parents of Agoura Hills Facebook group. I thought I'd take the new year as an opportunity to return to the blog and post some useful items and an … [Read more...]
Author
Hey guess what. (I keep forgetting to tell you stuff here.) I finished the novel I've been writing since 2014. I completed the story back in November, went through it again to make sure it wasn't glaringly error-ridden, compiled the manuscript (Scrivener users will know what that … [Read more...]
Vindication
Kyle has been over my blog for years, because "it's cringey," and mom bloggers everywhere can understand this feeling. But oh, sweet, sweet vindication. Kyle has to write an autobiography for his AP European History class. He needs to cite sources. If only there was a … [Read more...]
Election 2020 in the Bubble: Agoura Hills City Council and LVUSD School Board
I'm going to make this short and sweet, and limit my recommendations to two races: Agoura Hills City Council and Las Virgenes Unified School District Board of Education. Not that I don't have strong opinions about other contests, but because let's face it—you've probably already … [Read more...]
Slowly but Surely
It's October, 2020. I am still working on my first novel. How is it going, you ask? It's coming along slowly but surely, the same answer I have given for years. The different thing, which is a longer answer, and only interesting to writers maybe, is that I can see the slow but … [Read more...]