Seeing this reminds me of a book I read as a kid. It was about a racoon named Frosty who was temporarily adopted by a park ranger. Frosty discovered the toilet and flushed, jumped in, swirled around, waited for the toilet to refill, then repeated over and over again. 😆

Dear Universe & #writersOfTwitter ... holy cow! I didn't expect hardly any response on this.

For months & months I've been hovering around 960 followers. And today I broke 1000. When I joined Twitter 2 years 2 months ago, I never expected I would ever get to 1000! So cool! Thx!

Dear Universe, please send writers my way who're actually going to interact with me.

The people who follow me out of the blue (no previous interaction) who have 20k followers have no intention of interacting with me. They just want followers. I'm not here to pad others numbers

Grading students' assignments sometimes takes me hours. I've never used AI for creative pursuits but I sure wish it were advanced enough to do all the grading for me. That would free up so much time to write!

Today I'm grading & then taxes. Why did I wait so long to do taxes?🙄

Today I got an email from a lit mag & the subject line started with Congratulations & I got all excited because I thought maybe one of my submissions was accepted & then I realized it was a newsletter & had nothing to do with me & now I just want to go take a nap to recover. LOL.

Right now I should be in bed, but instead I'm sitting here reading and drinking a custom tea blend... dandelion root, dandelion leaf, thyme, gingko, marshmallow root, and licorice root.

OMG SO GOOD!!

I bookmarked this for future reference. Great information for writers. Take a gander (and not the goose kind of gander)! #WritingCommunity

I've taught at a community college for 24 yrs. On an average day, I might get a handful of students who contact me with questions or who need help with an assignment.

Yesterday, I spent the greater part of the day replying to 23 messages. Did the eclipse make everyone go cray??

So many replies to this video 'well, too bad, everyone starts at the bottom'

Part of the point is that one can start off at the bottom w/no degree & no stupid debt & get further along than someone who took 4+ years to get a degree & now has to start at the bottom w/horrible debt

You ever go through a phase where you're putting commas in places where they shouldn't go, but when you question the comma use, you end up in a second-guessing war of remove, put back, remove, put back, & then finally you just delete the entire sentence just to avoid the anxiety?

Sometimes when I send a story to a lit mag & I haven't heard back for weeks & weeks, I start to think my writing must be so awful they want to avoid contact w/me like I'm the plague.

I haven't had one acceptance this year & I'm feeling pretty bad about it. 😭

#WritingCommunity

Been car shopping. There was one dealership w/a really WEIRD vibe. Test drove a car, went inside, & the salesperson immediately shoved a credit app at me. Whoa! We hadn't even discussed price/confirmed a sale. I made an excuse & left. The next day she texted me the following.😲

Because, you know, money matters more than people.

Despicable!

An Expat friend of mine lives in Finland. He met an American traveling through Finland who had an emergency appendectomy there in Finland. Cost of emergency surgery and meds, $150. Here in the U.S. I can't even go to urgent care for simple strep throat for that cost.

Happy Spring Equinox. Warmer and better days ahead!

🌷🌺🌻

March 13th, 2020: My daughter had just gotten out of school, & while we were walking to my car, I got a recorded call from the school saying they were closing until further notice. My daughter (8 at the time) burst into tears because she didn't get to say goodbye to her friends.

I fell in the mud today.

That is all.

Received a text that said 'Hi, this is Kevin...' and I nearly leapt out of my skin beause my brother Kevin passed years ago. For a hot moment I thought he was texting me.

Then I realized it was a political 'vote for so-and-so' message from a random Kevin.

Holy Cow! Somehow, I made it in!!

That was so nerve-racking. I'm still shaking!

I'm in!!! Woohoo!!