Sick Day
Last night we watched the Oscars, from the very beginning of the red carpet coverage (the portion of the evening I refer to as The Dresses), all the way through to the historically bungled Best Picture award. There I sat,…
Month February 2017
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The Perfect Storm, Inside and Out
It’s raining. Still. Again. It’s been raining for days and days. Before that, it was sunny for maybe two days, and before that it rained for more days and days. This has been going on here in Napa Valley, since…
Avoiding The Draft
Back in November, I was furiously hammering at my keyboard every day, determined to achieve a crazy word count goal and bang out the first draft of a new novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, if you’re unfamiliar, wherein…
Jan M. Flynn’s Blog: The Wall Between Us
Cue Pink Floyd. The Wall already exists, my friends. Not between the USA and Mexico, but between us and us. It’s been building for some time now, in fits and starts, but its construction really took off with the last election cycle…