I've been noticing life around me lately.
That's a change, because I've been doing the old nose at the grind stone thing lately, trying to get this book ready for the publisher.
It's done except having my picture struck, which I reckon I will do Monday.
Ugh.
You may be like all these other people who are taking selfies all the time and think it's a grand thing to see their mug plastered all over Facebook, texts, twitter, snapchat and whatever the heck else there is.
Not I, friend. Nope, nope, nope. I hates it, my precious.
You may have noticed it's rained here enough to float the ark. But today the sun is out and our tomatoes are turning red. I picked a few beans to go with the other handful I picked a few days ago. There might be enough that maybe Husband and I won't have to fight over them.
On another note, I saw on the news the other day that a fella asked his mother to play the lottery for him. He carefully gave her the numbers he wanted played. She wrote them down.
She wrote them down wrong.
She proceeded to go to the store and buy a ticket for him. Using numbers unknown to him.
She won $100,000.00.
I bet he ain't mad at his mama.
So, commercial time!
Wait! Come back! It won't take long.
My new book coming out: "Poetry, Prose and Music: Life of an Appalachian Woman" is a whopper. No wonder I'm tired.
It's over 400 pages long filled with the funny and some sad, some light hearted mess and some introspection. Some of it rhymes, some of it doesn't, just like life. There are fifteen short stories, a few not very short. A few of these blogs you've read over the years are in there, as well as some "essays" that have been published elsewhere. A few short stories have won contests and been published. I even got money, people! And there's a great deal of photography included. Some of it quite good. Those are probably the photos I didn't take.
And at the back, a musical CD. Three of the songs are written by yours truly. Some are contemporary Christian, a few old hymns. Daughter sings a solo and two duets with her dear old mama. Daughter also did the artwork on the CD. Show off.
I'll keep you posted (you were afraid of that) as to the progress and when it's done and when book signings will commence.
Commercial over.
So, have you read any good books lately?
fifteen short stories
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Saturday, August 4, 2018
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Catch Up
Well, it's been a few weeks. I know I ain't blogging like I was. But I'm trying to get this book off the ground, and between that and everybody going to the doctor forty-eleven times, I'm pretty worn out, plus sick of the computer.
Husband had himself some surgery. He looks like he was on the losing end of a knife fight. (Although he reassures me that if he had been a real knife fight, he would have won, of course.)
He had this teeny weeny spot above his lip removed. Now he has thirteen stitches, a bloody, swollen mouth (think duck bill) and a bruise running down his chin and under his neck.
What he doesn't have (now) is cancer. This is good. Right now, it's just bad and ugly.
Of course, he's not been able to bend down or lift. He's milking it for all it's worth. He's developed this whine to his voice when he says my name that reminds me of a dentist's drill.
Mother, of course, had to have a run in with the hospital during all this. She'd been on antibiotics for a U.T.I. and it caused her to develop Ulcerative Colitis. We had the joy of spending the entire night in the ER. But she is better now, at least for now.
Other Brother passed a kidney stone. I think he got an A+ for his effort, since the doctor said it couldn't be done.
I'm still in physical therapy for my tootsies. It seems to be helping!
We won a million dollars in the lottery. (Not really, just seeing if you are paying attention.)
Our car has to have a software update. Is that totally ridiculous, or what?
Next step in the book process is to get a nice list in order as to how I want the book to flow.
And I'm still waiting on the CD to come back from being "pressed". Either it was really wrinkled or somebody in Nashville is listening to it over and over....or I'm in a long line at the press place.
Well, I guess that's it for now. If you think of something else, let me know.
Husband had himself some surgery. He looks like he was on the losing end of a knife fight. (Although he reassures me that if he had been a real knife fight, he would have won, of course.)
He had this teeny weeny spot above his lip removed. Now he has thirteen stitches, a bloody, swollen mouth (think duck bill) and a bruise running down his chin and under his neck.
What he doesn't have (now) is cancer. This is good. Right now, it's just bad and ugly.
Of course, he's not been able to bend down or lift. He's milking it for all it's worth. He's developed this whine to his voice when he says my name that reminds me of a dentist's drill.
Mother, of course, had to have a run in with the hospital during all this. She'd been on antibiotics for a U.T.I. and it caused her to develop Ulcerative Colitis. We had the joy of spending the entire night in the ER. But she is better now, at least for now.
Other Brother passed a kidney stone. I think he got an A+ for his effort, since the doctor said it couldn't be done.
I'm still in physical therapy for my tootsies. It seems to be helping!
We won a million dollars in the lottery. (Not really, just seeing if you are paying attention.)
Our car has to have a software update. Is that totally ridiculous, or what?
Next step in the book process is to get a nice list in order as to how I want the book to flow.
And I'm still waiting on the CD to come back from being "pressed". Either it was really wrinkled or somebody in Nashville is listening to it over and over....or I'm in a long line at the press place.
Well, I guess that's it for now. If you think of something else, let me know.
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