If you wonder where August went, well there I was, teaching and presenting at two writers conferences, selling my first novel (whoopee!) and trying to edit and mentor and all of that. I tried to join a blog site for Christian fiction writers (my novel, The Fence My Father Built, comes out August 2009 with Abingdon Press) and I learned this blog is not mature enough to get in. I must write at least fifty posts on a regular basis and get links and a page rank from Google. I wonder if anyone else thinks some of this blogging stuff is very time consuming. And I’m such a html dummy that I read the tutorials and still can’t figure some things out. Maybe it’s like macrame–remember macrame? In the 70s there were all sorts of how-to macrame books, and you read these tortuous instructions and pored over awful black-and-white diagrams, and then you still couldn’t get beyond your basic granny knot. But if you had a generous friend who didn’t mind showing you how, saying, “Take this cord and see? It goes around and through like this,” then maybe you got it immediately and began turning out ugly plant holders for everyone you knew. I wish someone would show me how to do this blog stuff, for apparently I do not know my widgets from my gadgets. If you are willing to show me where to click and drag, I have a nice jute macrame plant holder I’d be willing to trade.