Lynne Simpson

I have three major deadlines at work between now and mid-January, so I’m barely even checking email these days. And our oldest cat — a great granddaddy of a tomcat at 17.5+ years old — came down with pneumonia two weeks ago. For a week, we were force-feeding him beef baby food by smearing it [...]

…damned if Design Star isn’t addictive as all get out. Worse, I found myself listening to Britney Spears’ Gimme More on BPM this morning and actually, umm, liking it. I fear for my sanity. :-) Or as John would say, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?”

Wow, over a month since my last post. Yeah, it has been that kind of month. But I just started a new job (actually it’s an OLD job, but that’s a long story) and am still getting settled in. My writing schedule is totally shot at the moment, but I’m fighting my way back toward [...]

BPM alone is worth the XM subscription fee. And then there’s Chrome, Boneyard, Squizz, Folk Village, Radio Left, and Cinemagic. I heard this song, Pjanoo, on BPM just this morning.

John and I have been doing some running in the pool as well as just plain swimming, and I noticed recently that a vortex would start forming after he’d run only three or four laps in the shallow end. If I’m treading water under the diving board while he’s running, it’s all I can do [...]