Hello, Goodbye

Tidying up loose ends

Hello, bitchez.  It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?  Lots has happened to me since the last time I blogged, and I’ll try to sum them up in a thousand words or less*.

First of all, I am single again.  Not going to get into any details on that.  I will say it’s for the best, but it hasn’t been easy – I’ll leave it at that.

I am still politically-blogging for ABL over at her place, www.angryblacklady.com and raising hell whenever I can, in a good way.

You can find me on the Twitter Machine after I vowed I would never tweet at @asiangrrlMN.

My latest bit of good news is that I have been asked by another respected lefty blogger to write fiction for his site, OsborneInk.com, which is an amalgamation of blog posts, cartoon, fiction, videos, and other shit.  We chatted it up on the Twitter Machine – really, all the best deals are made on Twitter – and when he found out I wrote fiction, he asked to read a piece.  I sent him one, and he asked me if I did flash fiction**.  It’s not my strong point by far, but I have done it in the past.  So, he extended an invitation for me to write fiction for his site when the muse hits.  I accepted immediately and was elated.  I am moving away from blogging and back to my first love – well, actually my second as poetry was my first – fiction.  As much as I get jazzed about blogging, my fiction nurtures me like no other writing I do – and I do a hell of a lot of writing.


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