Thank you to everyone who has offered good wishes on the publication of Reason To Kill!! As you know it’s now available in paperback and kindle versions at the following locations: Click the links to get there and PLEASE! Buy one! If you do, don’t forget to let me know your thoughts about it!

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To those of you who have stood by, supported, encouraged and calmed me down, thank you! Looking forward to the future and everything that is jam packed in the next several months, I got to thinking about how archaic the idea of a ‘calendar’ is and yet how very relevant and essential it still is for me.

I envision a Mayan stone tablet; round, thick, crackled and ending next year. I think they just ran out of room or could not even imagine a distant future so far off.

It’s hard enough to think what I have or want to do in the course of a day.

Not being employed has given me the opportunity to paint, to write, to show my art, to publish a novel and to spend precious time with my family that I haven’t had in sixteen years.

However, it’s almost impossible to schedule all the hours I need to do all the things that are required of building a business, showing my art, marketing a book and managing a house. Something is going to get lost.

I know that calendars work for some people. We used to have a Filofax.   Remember those giant books that kept our lives straight? Now we have Iphones and our entire lives are stored as bytes instead of pages. No more pens, no more styluses. For me, they don’t work.

Print out a calendar and put it where I will see it, on the frig. Nope, doesn’t work. My brain stops looking at it, my eyes glaze over. From what does this affliction stem? My eyes see text, art, paint, supplies, appointments all in my head, not on the frig. I can’t see it.

So now I’m setting up my calendar for the next YEAR… can you stand it! Here, in the Bloggospere, here is where I can keep all of my events, dates, schedules, rules, times and appointments safely ready for my use. How sad is that!!! This is what I’ve resorted to, this is where it matters, works and makes sense. Ok, enough of that. At least we can go over it together and make some sort of mockery of me if not the actual year at a glance that my computer has turned me into.

Here’s what it looks like.

July:              Frame, frame, frame. Make Business cards, post cards, websites and blogs.

August:         Solo Art Exhibition at Saxby’s in Doylestown.

Enter Friends of the Delaware Canal Show – 4 works

September:    Enter Juried Show for Phillip’s Mill Art Exhibition – 1 piece + 2 Portfolio pieces

November:    Art Exhibition with Broads With Brushes at Saxby’s in Doylestown.

Enter Juried Show for New Hope Art League

January‘12:   Submit to Mother’s in New Hope, 1-2 Pieces through New Hope Art League

February‘12: Exhibit at Hatboro Bank in Jamison

March ’12:     Exhibit at Hatboro Bank in Warminster

September ’12: Exhibit at Saxby’s in Doylestown

Now I can see it. Now I can read it. Now it’s in my brain. That’s the bare bones of what my next year will look like, art wise. Book wise? OMG, here we go again!

Since the book marketing universe is new to me, I will begin by looking into getting into independent bookstores in my area. That includes The Doylestown Bookshop, where I’ve already begun to plow that road.

Seems like a lot to keep track of? That’s why I have a blog, right? Now you know where and when to find me, and you also know what I’ll be doing. Oh, that’s in between painting, editing my next novel, As the River Flows, which I’m already up to my otherworldly eyebrows in, blogging, updating all of my technologies, which pretty much takes up all the rest of my time. Oh, and let’s not forget having a house, family, friends, pet and life, not in that order!

Sheesh, I’m exhausted from keeping it all straight! Personally, I like the Mayan method. . . it’s compact, irrevocable, and has an expiration date. Just like us.