Down to the Wire

I have this unfortunate habit of forgetting that the future eventually becomes the present. All of a sudden as I was flying home on Tuesday I realized a bunch of things I’d agreed to do had gone from being somewhere in the foggy future to being in the next few days.

I’m going to be a guest blogger on www.mysteryloverskitchen.com on Sunday. You can kind of guess by the name the blog is going to be something about food. I’m going to write about a new version of a chocolate chip pan cookie, but I have to bake it first and keep my fingers crossed that it turns out. My family is very excited about the prospect of fresh cookies. If you want to find out if it turns out, check in on Sunday.

I’m also writing something for www.crazy-for-books.com. I’m writing about a holiday tradition which is supposed to show up some time in December, and I promised to turn it in tomorrow. Luckily, my son was happy to use his new camera to take a last minute photograph for me to include.

Sunday I’m going to be at the Barnes & Noble in the Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles from 2:00 to 3:00. Apparently I’m supposed to speak. Geez I’m going to have to think about what I’m going to say. I don’t know if I can fill an hour.

I’m sure glad I took care of describing the holiday gifts I’d give Molly. It’s already up on the Mystery Scene site www.mysteryscenemag.com.

And I finished writing the piece for Mystery Reader’s Journal about hobbies and mysteries and turned it in days before the deadline. It should appear in an upcoming issue. Information can be found at www.mysteryreaders.org/journal.html.

Are you ever surprised to find that the future has become now?