So much has happened since I last posted, and I do apologize (again!) for not posting regularly. Honestly, there are more than a few reasons I haven't posted:
1. I didn't have much time (like I did before...NOT)
2. I didn't want to post the negative stuff, and
3. I forgot not only my password but the new email I transferred the Blogger login info to. Oops.
But with diligence, a lot of tears, a few threats, and some dark chocolate, I finally figured it all out.
And now, a condensed version of the past year and a half.
I got a new part-time job as a rural news reporter in 2023 (okay, so more than a year and a half, but still relevant. Shush). Lots of writing, but just the facts, please! Though sometimes my boss lets me put a smidgen of humor into the plethora of articles I've written, it doesn't happen often enough. Do you know how hard it is not to make a funny blurb about a cow that got loose and knocked over several police officers? Gotta love rural news!
You'd think that would make me blog more often, but after a few sessions with a therapist, I have been told I 'unofficially' have ADHD.
That means when I should be letting the funny part of my brain off the leash, it defies me by shutting down any thoughts regarding humor. Ugh.
When I'm supposed to be serious, I want to be funny, and when I want to be funny, my brain takes a vacation. Joy and rapture abound.
Since I last posted, my husband has been running his bakery, except during the winter months. Just as we were getting to be known in the community and gearing up for spring, a new inspector came and shut us down, but not for the reasons you think.
We were mislicensed.
So we have to make a few renovations to be properly licensed, but since that was our major source of income, it put a damper on things — especially since it was the beginning of tourist and camping season.
We're not mad at the inspector. We've just been misinformed about so many things between the FDA and the Department of Agriculture; the wires got crossed somewhere. It happens. It's just bad timing. Why don't these things happen in winter when we are already shut down? Blah.
We were shut down after he did a day of baking, so we had fresh pastries and bread we couldn't sell, so we either had to eat them or give them away.
I gained three pounds.
Just kidding. Sort of. We did find hungry families to donate the bread and goodies to, after 'taste testing' to make sure they were safe to give away. Nom nom nom.
Just a few weeks ago, I had a breakthrough. The book I've been writing for over 25 years finally became a published entity, and I have a new book out! PMS is My Life — Ticklish Tales from Booties to Bunny Slippers has made its way onto Amazon and Kindle, and I'm working on an audiobook for it (once I learn how). It will also be in print at Barnes and Noble, and I'm working on getting it out into the world, one book signing at a time.
The plan is to sell enough books to get the bakery up and running again, and to get three children's books illustrated for publication. They are already written, I just need to pay my illustrator, because he can't live on bread alone. Though he did enjoy the cookies we sent as a bribe...er, thank you.
PMS is My Life is a series of stories I've written from childhood, up to speculations about being a grandma one day. The PMS part is in the chapter titles: Post Mommy Syndrome (babyhood), Produce Munchkins (motherhood), into Perpetual Meddler Syndrome (when the kids move out and when you visit you see they're doing it all wrong), and ends with Pamper Much Syndrome (when I try to guess what kind of grandmother I'll be).
It's filled with short personal essays of true-life happenings, some funny poetry sprinkled in, and enough speculations about life — like what would happen if men took turns being pregnant — to brighten your day and your predisposed perspectives. Here's the link to the book: PMS is My Life Book
Think Erma Bombeck if she had Philly snarkiness.
Here's a gander at the cover:
One of my new fans suggested I do a syndicated column. I looked into it, and the idea excites me a great deal! Can you imagine my stories making people laugh in newspapers throughout the country? How phenomenal would that be?
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