DoctorMama

Are you really ready for Advanced Maggotry? Take the following quiz: Have you been running (nearly) every other day for at least six mont...

In a rut? Tired of running? Too bad! You have to do it anyway. But there's ways to get you over the hump. Here are 10 ways I've ov...

I love my patio so hard. Here’s the view from where I sit: (Not pictured: the smell of the honeysuckle, the taste of the cappuccino, a...

I’d have been a bit, um, stricter in tone and instructions, but this is very timely, given what I said in the comments yesterday. Ho...

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Get me started on posting again, and I can’t seem to stop, sorry! Actually, I have been saving up this post since last spring, and it’s ano...

TH has been successfully avoiding tilting at Nana windmills. We did not go there for Thanksgiving – we simply said that we were working and ...

This is the first day in months and months and months that I have nothing on my desk that was due yesterday. (Plenty that needs doin...

As I mentioned before, one of my best friends , Christina Shea, just published her second novel , a work that you – my readers – helped brin...

Big Changes are afoot in my professional life, and they are sucking up all of my time. Not a move but a major redirection, and I’ve been str...

More than two years ago, one of my dearest friends was at a critical point in the writing of her second novel: she needed readers to c...

I recruited two! fresh maggots just yesterday (don’t let me down, J and S, and to S in particular: SLOW DOWN), and that and Kylie and procra...

(Started to put the following in the comments after Jess’s, but it got too long.) Part of the reason I doubt I’ll ever give up this blog –...

[Nanaphiles, take heart: soon I will describe my delicately finessed cease-fire.] TH and I celebrated our tenth anniversary. Also, a new c...

How did I not notice this? I HAVE GONE SILVER. Or white. Or gray. Or something really old-sounding. When I look in the mirror, to me it...