Author Archives: ahiddibah

My inbox dinged and I looked to see that Amazon had sent me an email. I have been getting tons of email from Amazon because I’ve ordered a few copies of my book and I published the book through KDP, their publishing company. I didn’t think much of it. I opened the email and thereContinue reading “Name In Print”

Leading up to the days of my brother’s death, I never know when it will hit me or even if it will. Today it did. The profound loss of him. The idea that I don’t get to share any of the joy of publishing my book with him. I don’t get to talk to himContinue reading “He’s Missing My First First”

When I was in college taking my Native American literature class, I never thought I would become Native American Literature. But here I am, in the top forty with Native American Writers: Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo and N. Scott Momaday for company. (Sherman Alexie is in there too, but well, he’s on the outs.) IContinue reading “#40 Best Seller in Amazon”

Star Wars Day is celebrated by nerds around the world today. I have actually celebrated in Disneyland at least once, maybe twice. I bought an R2D2 hat with Mickey ears. Doug was with me. It was one of my StuCo Leadership trips. Before Star Wars Day became a thing, there was just Star Wars. WhenContinue reading “May the 4th Be With You”

I haven’t been around people other than my children since March 13th. We’ve been on the lock down in Las Vegas since around that time due to the coronavirus. I generally use other people as my emotional barometer. I can gauge how I am feeling based on their reactions to my speech, my twitching andContinue reading “Maybe Mini Hypomania”

YAY! I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR! yay. i’m a published author… I ran the gamut of emotions yesterday. But I did the thing that I know is bad for me. I violated my sleep hygiene. I talked about it a bit last post. I was so excited about getting my graphics that I couldn’t sleep. IContinue reading “Emotional Hangover in Solitude”

That’s it! I am published. I got my graphics back from at 11PM last night. I forgot to turn my phone off so it dinged. Of course, I had to look and see what the noise was. I saw it was a message from David. I didn’t open the message. I just knew it wasContinue reading “End of a Marathon”

This is it. I’m waiting on the graphics and the book should be published soon. My deadline I had in my head was May 1st. It may actually come true. This book is a work that took almost a year to come to fruition. It started off in pieces, while I was in pieces comingContinue reading “Greetings”

Happy birthday, Tom. Another year has passed and it’s time to catch you up on all the things you have missed. Game of Thrones ended. I know you would have been on the hate-it side of the fandom. I’m sure of it. Especially how you felt about other things. GRRM has not released his latestContinue reading “Happy 47th Birthday, Brother!”

2/22/2020   I seem to give up my addiction to nicotine on holidays. Last year, I gave up smoking on St. Patrick’s Day. This year I gave up vaping on President’s Day. Neither one was intentional, it just turned out that way.   Since I had started smoking again this summer, after a brief hiatusContinue reading “Vaporizing the Vape”