Celestial Chicken Blog

I didn’t intend for a week to go by between posts. I’m going to use the usual excuse: I was busy. Friday the 23rd was my birthday and I took the day off to spend with my kids and to get a doctor’s appointment out of the way. The 24th we went to the RenFaire [...]

Today’s Shoe cartoon in the newspaper cracked me up. Check it out here. I’m always blogging…why not at the restaurant? If it has Wifi…I’m there! LOL

How do you gauge success in your writing? For me, it’s knowing that people read it. And I often don’t know if people are reading it or not, unless they respond to it in some way and give me direct or indirect feedback. Along with keeping up with my own personal blogs and trying to [...]

GREAT video on copyrights, patents, and intellectual copyrights, presented by attorney Stephan Kinsella. He is funny, straightforward, and understandable. Worth the 56 minute video…I encourage you to watch the whole thing!

I was listening to a new podcast tonight while I was sewing the blouse for my RenFaire costume. I get a lot of podcasts listened to that way. Anyway, Lillers recommended this podcast to me, and I downloaded the last few episodes to catch up. I Should Be Writing by Mur Lafferty [...]

I spent yesterday ill and in bed. I wish I could say it was productive time, but it wasn’t, as I was sleeping. But last night I sat in the living room and tried to read through some of the articles in one of the magazines I picked up at Barnes and Noble [...]

My friend Lillers and I attended a writer’s workshop today put on by the St. Louis Writer’s Guild. There was some great information about websites for writers, and how to and why to blog. One of the speakers talked for a few minutes about whether or not you are a right-brained or [...]