Query Funk

This morning Aaron drove down to Best Buy for the third time. This time he came home with an external hard drive with all our files on it. Y...

American Things

We've been busy doing American things this past week. (1) Garage Sales On Saturday we contributed some of our stuff (that had been sit...

Making Adjustments

Moving back to America after eight years in China has meant making adjustments. Strange, small adjustments. Here are a few that spring to mi...

Michael Jackson is Dead

How very strange that I should have emotions about his passing. But when we came home today from our Best Buy trip, the television was on, a...

Bring On the Geek Squad

Wow. Thanks to everyone, especially on Facebook, who read my recent blog entry about our computer woes and encouraged me that my manuscript...

Waiting to Feel Full

Food. Since I've returned to the United States, I've been eating. A lot. And drinking Dr. Pepper. Too much Dr. Pepper. Aaron said th...

Should Have

Yes, I should have backed them up. I remember thinking several times before we packed the computer: "I need to back them up." But ...

Heaven in Reverse

Eight a.m. Saturday morning. The van is loaded, ready. We had about ten guys show us to help move our fifteen pieces of luggage down the ste...

Provision

Eleven o'clock Friday night. We're leaving China in the morning. The living room is filled with boxes and suitcases. Fourteen at las...

WIP Wednesday: Happily Ever After

This is my last blog post from China. *Gulp.* Tomorrow our Mac book is going back to school. Forever. And I will be blogless until we arrive...

Returning

Maybe the sky was crying Seeing a little girl Returning to the place Where her birth mother Last held her tiny hand. All I know is, It doesn...

Good Grief!

Today was the last day of school. I shed tears at the bus stop this morning, and not because I woke up with Richard Marx hair (which I did)....

WIP Wednesday: Alternate Ending

I actually accomplished something this week, amazingly enough. I wrote the alternate ending to my Up Lantau Running book. It was the new en...

Wow, thanks!

I guess my shameless self-promotion actually worked because I came in second in the Query Tracker contest for purple prose . (You can click ...