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Making Friends with Murphy

That seems to be the only option, since Murphy’s Law is running the show these days, at least here on the Triple L.  :)   Nothing big, thank heaven, just things like having to stop everything, go downstairs and hunt up batteries for my wireless keyboard just when I’m REALLY getting into the book.  Or my internet service blanking out when I needed to write this morning’s blog.  Never fear–I’m back on target, and I actually got some excellent work done yesterday.  I’m determined, if nothing else.  :)

As promised, here’s the info for my appearance at the Western Art Show on May … Read More »

The One Where the Computer Eats A Morning’s Work

Zounds!  I was doing so well yesterday, working away in my new office, and suddenly the computer gulped down my revisions!  For a while there, it looked as though I’d actually lost EVERYTHING, though some of it was saved on other computers.  First impulse: have a nervous breakdown.  Second impulse: PRAY. 

Thank heaven I skipped impulse number one and had a word with the Big Guy instead.  A few strokes to the keyboard and the chapters returned as mysteriously as they’d disappeared.  But I still have to do the revisions over again–but, as Phyllis A Whitney used to say, “Good … Read More »

The Pony Express carried almost 35,000 pieces of mail over more than 650,000 miles during those nineteen months and lost only one mail sack.

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