We drove up to Banner Desert Hospital Thursday morning for Don’s pre-op conference.  We spent an hour or so talking to an exceedingly pleasant and upbeat nurse named Joan, who is from Maine and had such a heavy New England accent that it sounded like a joke.   She took all his history and list [...]

Don’s tube change last week went off without a hitch. The worst thing about it was the wait. We had to be there at 8 am for a 10 am procedure, which didn’t actually happen until about 11. This is the third time he’s had the tubes changed, and it’s just a slam, bam, thank [...]

I trekked up to Poisoned Pen Bookstore last Saturday to see Louise Ure and Laurie King, two of my very favorite authors. Louise is touting her third book, Liars Anonymous. Her first two books, Forcing Amaryllis and The Fault Tree, were knock-’em-dead good. Thus far, all her novels have been stand-alones set in Tucson, and [...]

The latest update on my husband’s health quest is below, but since writing is the raison d’etre for this blog, I thought I might mention that I’ve been reading Donald Maass’ Writing the Breakout Novel, which is something of a bible for novelists, and it’s really been helpful in getting me to work on my [...]