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\"Losing<\/a><\/p>\n

The last two weeks have been painful. First, my stay with my daughter and her husband ended, which meant I had to say good-bye to our beautiful grandson. Next, I spent two days figuring out what I’d been doing before my month of play (long July 4th weekend in the Twin Cities, a week in Idaho, and a week with my daughter’s family), getting the house in order, and keeping appointments.<\/p>\n

Then it was time to visit Mom, who was more than a little miffed because I had missed 2 Wednesday visits in a row. (Never mind that the Man of Steel came in my stead both weeks.) And because her new jeans\u2013the ones I’d spent two weeks and 3 return trips to the store until I found ones that fit her\u2013don’t fit just like her old jeans did.<\/p>\n

At which point I trounced her playing Rummikub.<\/p>\n

On the drive home from that visit, I said to myself, “Now you’ll be home for several days. You’ll get caught up on your writing. You’ll have time to think and recuperate.”<\/p>\n

At which point God laughed.<\/p>\n

And I walked into our house where the Man of Steel was on the phone with CenturyLink, our internet provider. He was on the phone a long time and finally hung up, a bit disgusted. Which for him means saying something unpleasant in a kind way. “We won’t have internet for a week.”<\/p>\n

At which point I began to cry.<\/p>\n

And to pack my briefcase with all the writing materials necessary for a week’s worth of writing. The briefcase was heavy. Heavy enough that I considered cramming everything into plastic garbage bags and steeling a grocery cart from the store down the road.<\/p>\n

At which point I realized my sister is right. I am a drama queen.<\/p>\n

So I ditched the garbage bag\/grocery cart idea. But I did spend the week as an internet homeless author, wandering the streets in search of free public free access to the worldwide web. It wasn’t fun. And I got really, really behind on my work. Frustratingly so.<\/p>\n

At which point my daughter, the literature major, sent her edits for Run, Jane, Run<\/em> via email.<\/p>\n

That cheered me up immensely as she really liked the book, and her suggestions for improving it were wonderful. Her ideas will require several more days, maybe even a couple weeks, of revising. But it was something I could do stay home and do without internet access.<\/p>\n

At which point the repairman came and our internet service was restored.<\/p>\n

Which just goes to show timing is everything. And God is still laughing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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