simple joys

I blog quite a bit about legal issues, seahorses, and the writing path. Most of those posts carry lessons…in no small part because my life is one long lesson-studded path (many of which, I don’t learn the first time through). Every once in a while, I notice other people’s lives on similar trajectories. And when I’m very fortunate, I get to share the happy parts, not just the troubling ones. Recently, I offered an author advice about dealing with a troublesome publisher. To my delight, the publisher voluntarily gave the author what we’d asked for–even though it wasn’t an industry-standard request. Last night, I