Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

It's been a while since I blogged about the fibro. Today it was unavoidable. For the last week, it has been gloomy and cloudy and just...blah. Makes me wonder how on earth folks in Seattle deal with all that rain. I seriously would not know what I would do if I had to deal with that day in and day out for months. Its bad enough I'm not nice after this last week of yuck, put me in that situation and I could not be responsible for my actions. Case in point. Four days ago, I had severe anxiety attacks that kept me awake all night. The next day the fibro pain was nasty. Saturday, I had a video hangout scheduled for questions and answers for Diary of a Crazy Cat Lady and it was a bust. I was pretty bummed. Then my kitchen drain clogged. Yeah...sometimes its not worth getting out of bed. Trust me, if it didn't drive me crazy to not be doing something, I would still be under the covers hiding from the world. Last night, another wonderfully sleepless night <insert severe s...

Yes, I have started a new chapter. That is, my book Diary of a Crazy Cat Lady has. I had been playing around with the marketing for both of my books since they hit the market. Since I am self-published, of course the marketing is on me. I've put The Father's Footsteps in our local library; I did a freebie for Cat Lady on the 13th of January in honor of what would have been my Nanny's 101st birthday and gave away close to 200 books worldwide. I have ordered copies of both books and have given most of them away, sold some of them. I have promoted both books on www.BookDaily.com and www.Rankmybook.com ; had word of mouth advertising; gotten my books available online through Barnes and Noble, The Tattered Cover and just about any independent bookstore that does online transactions. Not to mention that these books are available to the buyers for these bookstores if they desire to put them on the shelves. And to the a comment that someone close to me made about me buying  my...

You know, not too long ago someone asked me how I write with the fibro. It got me to thinking...I don't know. I've been sitting at this computer, composing one thing or another for the last year or better and for the life of me, I can't figure out how the fibro fog doesn't make my writing simply unintelligible. I do know from time to time that bunny trails have actually been a benefit to my writing, but I am at a loss as to how I actually can string two words together sometimes so that they actually make sense. I know that one person finds my work inspiring, I know that because she told me so, and I am humbled and flattered. Really I am. But I am not sure that moniker is deserving. Let's face it, I have been a bit of a scatter-brained individual all my life. A bit absent-minded, too. As I age, the absent mindedness gets the best of me and I stop in mid sentence and apparently get quite the vacant stare on my face. It bugs me, especially with the dementia and Alz...

I've found something recently. No, it's not a trinket that I've put away eons ago and found when rummaging through long forgotten boxes. No, it's not a new found spirituality that I never knew existed. It isn't a new love. I like the one I have, thank you...I'm not in the market for a new one anytime soon, just for reference. Besides, it's a pain in the neck to train a new one. It isn't a new puppy, a new friend, a new house or a new car. Its a new "something to do with my life" thing. It's writing. Okay, I know, I've been doing this blog for a couple of years, and lately I've been a bit slack on keeping it updated. My bad, as the kids say. I haven't been updating mostly because I've been doing other writing...I've been writing books. I've always loved to write. As far back as I can remember (and sometimes that 'far back' is only as far as yesterday), I have written things down. As a freshman, I ha...