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Ice Ice Baby We in the Kansas City metro area are in the throes of an ice and snow storm. Roadways are skating rinks, I ain't goin' out there. Here's what our last big ice storm looked like. This is our driveway, the trees are bent over under the weight of a solid one inch coating of ice. My debut novel, River of Possibilities is now for sale . Because I am a kind and generous soul, (and so modest - lol) and I believe that giving leads to receiving, you can read the COMPLETE novel online. I loved researching all of the paranormal stuff that is in the book, and I loved writing it, but my synopsis sucks - LOL! So I'm having a contest. Help Me Syn I am not happy with the synopsis for the novel. (And you thought I just couldn't spell "sin" Trust me, I'm an expert on sin *snicker*) So for two weeks, there is a contest. Write the best synopsis. Or the worst. Any synopsis. The whole book is free online . Winner gets a free print copy of the book. I...

I love all of my Internet friends. It still amazes me that this technology allows me to meet such wonderful people from all over the world! As a a way of expressing my deep appreciation of the friendships I have made, I am offering my new novel to everyone FOR FREE ! If you visit this blog , you can read the entire book online. I started this project on the first of the year, and I posted a single page every day. I thank all of you for reading my mental meanderings. I hope that each of you will take time today to count your blessings, even the little ones we often take for granted...a home, our families, our health. I wish you all peace and love (‘cause I’m an old hippie and that’s what we do - LOL) To leave a comment, please go here Thanks!

Howdy, all. I’m still as beat as a slow mule, but had a little funny this mornin’ that I thought I’d share. This gettin’ up at 3 AM crap makes everything seem funny to me though, so maybe it really ain’t. Let me know. Or not. Hell, I don’t know when I’ll ever get back here LOL I’m powerful sorry for not visiting anyone lately. First off, yes, both my car and son’s car are still dead. I still drive 8 million miles a day to get hubs to work, come back, get daughter to school, come back, get the boy to McDonald’s, come back, run errands, come back, go get hubs, come back, go get the boy, come back...then die. LOL I fall asleep around 6 PM these days. But this morning, as I was driving husband’s car (that I am still not familiar with) I started hearing a strange little beeping noise. “For the love of gawd, WTF is that?” I wondered. I didn’t really care to investigate. The car was still travelling down the road in a reasonably straight line...that was good enough. But when I dragged the l...

click to enlarge I was looking for funny cat pictures this morning, and I found this. It came from a website that is in a foreign language , so I have no idea what they’re saying about it, but it made me laugh. LOL Sorry for not being around, real life has been a bitch lately. I hope all of you have a lovely week! Next Wednesday I have a big Thanksgiving surprise for you! Wordless Wednesday turkey cats smackdown To leave a comment, please go here Thanks!

Squidoo just hit 50,000 lenses! To celebrate, here's a challenge from us to you. If every Squidoo member built just one new lens, we could help Room to Read build a new school in Vietnam or Nepal. And then another. And another. And another. Because your lens could just keep earning royalties, for free, forever. I’ve got two lenses in the program: 12 Days of Gift-mas Favorite Hitchcock Films So please digg the story and visit. Consider building a lens of your own...it’s free, easy and if you don’t, an angel loses its wings - LOL To leave a comment, please go here Thanks!

Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day, I've got a wonderful feeling, Everything's going my way. Happy Wednesday, everyone! What a beuatiful day! S’posed to be mild and sunny here, hooray! In other news, the American people have spoken. Woot! I believe in democracy. I believe we have the right to vote and should exercise it. If you didn’t vote, you don’t get to bitch - LOL! And K-Fed goes in the same, “Trivial Pursuit - 2010 Edition” answer box as Star Jones - LOL! I get a couple of days off from the insanity run! Double woot! LOL Husband has taken a mini-vacation, so for a few days, I am spared from breaking the laws of Mazoorah, Kansas and physics, by trying to survive on three hours of sleep and travel 250 miles a day without incident ( cars hate me ). I got to make a “ Personal Wishlist ” Squidoo lens, which was a blast! Stop by and make one for yourself - it is so much fun! I’ll be happy to lend you a hand! Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. It's...

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I am tarred. That’s hillbilly-speak for exhausted. Been gettin’ up at 3 AM to do the insanity run. That means I usually fall asleep about 7 PM - LOL But I stayed up last night to watch Grey’s Anatomy, because I love that show. ‘Cause it’s all true. I reckon most folks that watch it think, “Heh...funny, but that could never happen in real life.” Trust me, real life is crazier. I used to be an x-ray tech. The parade of human stupidity that you see when you work in a hospital is beyond anything a fiction writer could come up with. We’d often get called to the emergency room to do portable x-rays. You never knew what to expect. It might be some fool who accidentally shot himself with a nail gun. Or a kid that swallowed something or stuffed something up their nose. But the strangest case I ever saw (and let me tell you, I saw some damn strange stuff) was the vibrator case. Got the call to do an ER portable. On the table was a young man in his 20’s sweating and groaning, and holding ...

Isn’t it grand that the gods decided Marti didn’t have quite enough crap in her life, and delivered a special truckload of manure for Halloween? LOL My blog vanished. Poof! Happy Halloween - it’s gone! I don’t know why. I do not understand WordPress-speak. It was still here if you added “blog” to the end of the URL. Tricky bastard. I wrote to WordPress forum. I got an answer that was similar to the instructions for constructing a matter transport machine. If they were written in Chinese. By an Ethiopian. But God bless her beautiful soul, Amy rode to my rescue. I wrote her an enormous rant, and she is to be congratulated first for not changing her e-mail address and not telling me - LOL I bitched about not having a car, having to drive so far every day, the cold weather, the blog disappearing, and the general crappiness of life. Her kind soul, warm sense of humor and genius mind saved me! She boosted my spirits and fixed my blog! What a woman! So the blog is back! Thank you, Amy, you e...