I love having my life back!!

I love sitting at the laptop all day and working on the novel — it’s been a long time since I was able to sit and focus like that (since COVID, actually, after which, everything in my life changed).

It takes some adjusting, though, to be closed up in my room now with 4 extremely frisky kittens and a Mommy-cat, in such high humidity — and not be able to even open the door.

But it’s temporary. It’s all temporary, in fact, when you think about it… Life.

Anyway.

Once I get back from NYC, I can focus on letting the kittens get out and roam the house a little. But I was informed that I can’t get Little Blackie spayed until at least one month after the kittens are completely weaned.

So on we go. Until then, we’re all in this room together.

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Oh! Here’s one nice thing the kittens did for me yesterday, while I was having a quick chat on the phone with Sandra about the play!!

They relieved me of that pesky Himalayan salt lamp that I absolutely LOVED!

Looks so much nicer now than it used to look, doesn’t it, gang??

Anyway. Just a long line of things that I have to let go of around here, between the kittens and the foster cats. (I can’t tell you how many times a day I find myself saying , “You didn’t just do that, did you?? Oh my god!!”)

But onward.

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Before I forget, my eBooks that are published on Smashwords will once again be FREE to download during their Summer Sale for the month of July.

This will include: Freak Parade, and The Muse Revisited Volumes 1, 2, & 3.

eBooks only and on Smashwords, only. And these titles are absolutely for Adults Only. Thank you!!

I will remind you when July 1st rolls around.

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So, I have my plane ticket to NYC . Out hotel rooms are booked. The rehearsal space is booked and the rehearsal schedule has been sent to all involved. And I’ll be seeing Wayne probably a couple of times while I’m there, and Valerie from Brooklyn will be meeting me for dinner on Tuesday, July 9th.

The cat-sitter has been confirmed and doubly confirmed. I have THREE new sundresses — plus a couple more that are almost new.

AND I’ve reserved about 7 trillion Uber rides.

So it’s safe to say that I’m ready and the trip to NYC is right around the corner, gang. And the much beloved play, “The Guide to Being Fabulous” officially starts its journey to Off-Broadway.

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Okay, here’s this!!

From the photographer Peter Anderson’s Instagram account — Nick Cave, back when he was with The Boys Next Door:

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And, honestly, that is really it.

I have to see my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man today — it’s Sushi-Sashimi day, if he’s up to it!! So I gotta scoot.

Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Another one from Steve Earle!

“Hillbilly Highway”, 1986. From the album Guitar Town. Enjoy, gang.

“Hillbilly Highway”

My granddaddy was a miner, but he finally saw the light
He didn’t have much, just a beat-up truck and a dream about a better life
Grand mama cried when she waved goodbye, never heard such a lonesome sound
Pretty soon the dirt road turned into blacktop, Detroit City bound

Down that hillbilly highway
On that hillbilly highway
That old hillbilly highway
Goes on and on

Now he worked and saved his money so that one day he might send
My old man off to college, to use his brains and not his hands
Grand mama cried when he said goodbye, never heard such a lonesome sound
Daddy had himself a good job in Houston, one more rollin’ down

That old hillbilly highway
That old hillbilly highway
That old hillbilly highway
Goes on and on
On and on, on and on, here it goes

Granddaddy rolled over in his grave the day that I quit school
I just sat around the house playin’ my guitar, and Daddy said I was a fool
My mama cried when I said goodbye, I never heard such a lonesome sound
Now I’m standin’ on this highway and if you’re going my way

You know where I’m bound
Down that hillbilly highway
On that hillbilly highway
That old hillbilly highway
Goes on and on

Hmm, yeah, that’s the road I’m on

Hillbilly highway

Hillbilly highway

c- 1986 Steve Earle, Jimbeau Hinson