Melissa R. L. Simonin

Disengaged has new pages, but the best news is that I don’t have to go back for another excision. I get to keep the rest of the skin on my back, because all the margins have now been removed. I am so glad! Time is flying by. This week we registered Em for school. She’s […]

Emily received her final report card. She made straight B’s! I’m proud of her, she worked hard for it. She feels confident that she can handle public school again, so… that’s what she wants to do this year. I messaged Brad, and he was all for it. So, she’s now registered. School starts August 16th, […]

In spite of knowing that their purpose is to provide security for users of Microsoft Windows, I do not like the annoyance of having to wait for my computer to download, restart, and install them. I don’t like to wait at all, but I particularly find it annoying to be robbed of the use of […]

Anika just pointed out that that isn’t the truth. It hasn’t been any longer than any other month with the same number of days. So let me rephrase that. It feels like it’s been a long month–no, it feels like it’s been far too short for everything that’s been packed into it, is more like […]

I was driving home from kitty-care, trying to come up with a reasonable reason to add one of the kittens to our household, when the radio caught my attention. Not the radio itself, but the person speaking. I listen to Air1, and sometimes they play bits of sermons to advertise churches, or pastors, or something. […]

What a day for Em to feel under the weather! It was our day to provide kitty-care for a local shelter. Although the week before, there was one cat and one kitten, this time… the whole place was full to the brim! So many kittens! They all wanted held, and played with, and there was […]

Finally, my mother is back from Ireland! Not that I’ve had a chance to read the latest chapters in “Disengaged” to her, since she got home not long ago, and she’s still on Irish time. But, maybe, that means she’ll get up super-early tomorrow. I can hope, anyway! I’m desperate to read what I wrote […]

It’s a good feeling to have the final copy of “Lochlan Museum” submitted. Both kindle, and paperback versions, no less. I could’ve released it in June after all, but… I didn’t want to put that much pressure on myself. Not with the way things have been going lately. But now, it’s completely finished, and I’m […]

This might possibly be the cover for “Disengaged.” I hesitate to say for certain, since I frequently change my mind after making such statements. But, for now, this is it. “Disengaged” the novel, is on page 193. I intend to write as much as I can before stalling out. My listening ear is on the […]

That’s right. “Lochlan Museum,” is done. It was done last month, but I got busy, and didn’t have the chance to post about it. A couple of my proofers are in the process of moving, so I’m short two. My other two, however, are finished. After I finished writing “Lochlan,” I moved on to “Disengaged,” […]