Busy Bee

Two weeks is simply way too long to go without a blog entry. In my defense, things have been super crazy. Life started to unravel back in March with pneumonia for my youngest. Since then, things have calmed down very little. There was the deeply unexpected and saddening death of my sister-in-law, a seven-hour trip to Children’s Hospital, more illness for my boys, an infection for my youngest, a Memorial Day trip upended, a driving trip to Phoenix to help out family, and in-patient surgery looming on the horizon for my four-year-old. And throughout it all, I thought to myself: “I truly need to get back to my blog.” In fact, I was such a horrid tweeter (again, the whole defense thing above) that I lost twenty-some followers. Twitter: such a fickle place.

But I have thought about my blog. It has crossed my mind in the quiet and darkened moments of the night when children are no longer talking my ear off or demanding my attention. When the dryer is not buzzing or the feeding pump alarming or the timer for dinner beeping. In fact, I plan to start a new schedule for my blog. It goes something like this:

Monday: Six Things I Did Today…(the usual stand-by)

Tuesday: Travel Tuesdays to celebrate pushing my travel memoir out the door in the hopes it finds a publisher rather than become one of the typical shiftless ski bums that frequent this area (did I say that out loud?). I am thinking it may celebrate the wonderful places I have had the fortune of visiting.

Friday: (And this one I’m not too sure about) #queryclinic. A place for those of us in the query process to critique queries and offer suggestions so we can graduate to published writers. (More to come later).

So that’s that. Thanks to all of you who chose not to desert me during my unplanned hiatus. In addition to my blog, I need to stroke my neglected and seemingly abandoned manuscripts, as well. They are starving for some attention, for sure. Happy Writing!