Kate's idea of doing a weekly progress report has caught on with other Blog Chain members. Here's a quick summary of where I'm a...

Time again for another Blog Chain Post. Leah picked the topic this time, and she's hoping to make us stretch ourselves. Here's her q...

I got the idea for this post from Kate . She plans to report her progress on, well, her work-in-progress, every week. As I've said befor...

Sometimes three-day weekends are tougher than working. Alex has been a bit off the last couple of days--not napping a full two hours, develo...

Happy Valentine's Day! Eugene and I celebrated last night since we were able to get babysitting for Alex at his daycare. We went out for...

One of the links in my sidebar is to a blog called Flogging the Quill . It's run by a writer/editor, and he critiques the openings (the ...

I'm back again on the Chain Gang. This round, we welcome two new members to our chain: Kat and Christina . Michelle posted before me, an...

After I returned to work from maternity leave, I started keeping my cell phone in my back pocket. Since I move around the lab a lot during a...

My goal this year is to edit two chapters of Across Two Universes each month. I'm a couple of days late, but I just finished Chapter Tw...

I just found out through one of my writing groups that Realms of Fantasy is closing down after April's issue. Here's the full stor...

As promised, I'm back once again for another Blog Chain Pooooost ! Michelle posted right before me, and Abi will finish off this round....

The owner of our company (it's part of a Japanese company that's been in the same family for over a century) came in today for our a...

Last night, Eugene and I had a friend over for dinner. (She's a professional photographer; she took the family portrait I have on the bl...

Deadly good, and deadly for any hope I have of losing weight, that is. I saw this recipe posted in the Chicago Tribune today. It's for ...

It's time once again for another Blog Chain Post. Since I picked the topic for our last normal chain, I'm at the end of this one. Ab...

A mother's job is 24/7, so it's nice once in a while to have some time to take care of myself. I got a haircut today, my first one i...

Another video appropriate for the day, this one by U2. As before, there's no embedding allowed, so you can find the video here . We star...

I thought this song (by Counting Crows) would be appropiate for today. Embedding has been disabled for this video, but you can watch it here...

We Blog Chain members are celebrating the holiday season with a special Jingle Bell Chain. (sings, "Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle be...

A couple of days ago, we had a terrible snowstorm here. The roads were so bad it took me over an hour to get to Alex's daycare; I arrive...