Category: Mind/Body

  • How I Cured My Blood Pressure in Under 4 Weeks Without Drugs or Exercise

    In the past three and a half weeks, I’ve manage to drop my blood pressure from a high of 160/100 to an average of 116/74, without taking blood pressure medicine, exercising, or visiting a doctor. (I don’t have health insurance or, at the moment, money, so for me, a doctor wasn’t even a consideration.) By…

  • Create A Character Clinic Goes Gold

    Both Create A Character Clinic and Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood are now available in print versions at the OneMoreWord Bookstore on Lulu.com. The second version of CCC landed on my doorstep Saturday afternoon, and it came out just right. I was overjoyed that it turned out so well…and incredibly relieved that it turned out at…

  • A Friend of Mine Is In Trouble

    I met Judi two years ago via an e-mail from a mutual friend. Even though Judi and I have never met in person, we’ve been through a lot together; two years ago her grandson, newborn, had serious breathing difficulties, failure to gain weight, and other neonatal issues. He wasn’t expected to live. He went through…

  • Back … Again

    I thought that when I made my Gremlins post, I was back and would be able to catch up on some of my private work (website, e-book editing and putting together, worldbuilding and manuscript crits) before getting back into the public work (I SEE YOU revisions, the next proposal). Unfortunately, during my time off, my…

  • Slogging

    I’m feeling enough better today to have done a very light workout this morning, and to be writing. Of course, the writing itself hasn’t been flying. I ripped out about 2000 words of ISY, and wrote a new section to replace the point where I went wrong. Went to enter my word-count in my WIPBar,…

  • Not as fast as I’d like

    The writing on ISY is going. I’m still reworking previous chapters — and adding a fair amount to the wordcount because if my finished style is spare, my first draft style is damned near telegraphic. I’ll get the words; I’ll get the HAWKSPAR words today, too. I feel remarkably good. My big birthday present (read…

  • Style and Grace … and Pain

    I have a history of spectacular pratfalls at inopportune times. Last night, in a move that emphasized once again how right my mother was not to name me Grace, I got my right foot caught in my pants leg while I was getting changed. I lost my balance, and with nothing to brace myself on,…

  • Serenity

    I slept. Those are such simple words, so trivial, so casual. Until you haven’t, anyway. I can’t say it was a night of perfect slumber — but every time I woke up, I got back to sleep again, and this morning I feel good. Well-rested, with my brain off the hamster wheel. I lost a…

  • Up at One AM Again

    Tried to work, failed miserably. Going back to bed to see if I can get some sleep. Don’t know what’s going on, but I’m exhausted and I feel like hell.

  • And Done For the Day

    Sitting up isn’t working out too well. I’d better be over this by tomorrow.