I'm alive and well

I'm making another commitment to blog regularly. I haven't decided if that's once a month or once a week. As a "writer" I feel a lot of pressure to come up with something brilliant and profound and have it sound perfect. Oh, that's because I'm a perfectionist. Until I come up with brilliant, profound, and perfect, I'll let you know what I've been up to.  I'm revising A Kiss and a Curse for the 22nd time. This time it will be brilliant and profound because I finally understand what an editor told me a year ago about finding more depth in Juliana's character. I've added a lot more inner conflict and increased the conflict with her cursing. In about a month, I'll send it to the patient and brilliant editor and hope she likes it this time. Also, I'm teaching a high school language arts class twice a week for Ensign Education, an LDS homeschooling virtual classroom. I love it. I love analyzing literature and interacting with my five students via webcam. We are finishing up The Virginian by Owen Wister. When I analyzed literature in high school, I didn't understand much of it, but now I enjoy looking for theme and symbols, and analyzing the characters.
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Also, I'm having flashbacks of my own teenager years as my oldest child is fifteen and received her first chocolates from a guy. Sigh. I'm so glad I made it through the teenage years and met my husband. He is my ideal man.