These are words that have been used, of late, to describe our bouncing baby boy.  Anyone who comments on his size, nay girth, be it pediatrician, friend, or random man on a street corner is amazed that our little guy is just shy of five months old.  Often, so are we! Case in point:  Yesterday […]

You might think that the infrequency of late in my blogging is a result of my intense novel writing.  Unfortunately you’d be wrong.   As of this writing, I have achieved half of the NaNoWriMo goal, that is, a 50,000-word novel written solely during the month of November. You’ll note that today is November 30, […]

This month I am taking part in a national challenge: NaNoWriMo—in long form, National Novel Writing Month—is a challenge to complete one novel, start to finish, 50,000 words in the month of November.  Fifty thousand words equate to about 175 pages, and if you write each day, that turns out to about three single-spaced pages […]