Deja Vu Blogfest

I'm partaking in the Déjà Vu Blogfest, which is the brainchild of DL Hammons, Katie Mills, Lydia Kang, and Nicole Ducleroir. The whole idea is that as we're following and commenting to the best of our abilities, we miss many important blog posts. I know I've missed blog posts that were revealing, enlightening, and entertaining. For this blogfest participants are re-posting favorite posts or posts they believe should have received more exposure.

My re-post is my first blog post. I had no idea what I was doing when I first got on Blogger. I had two previous blogs, but I was writing them more for me—without an audience in mind—and I didn't have a set schedule, blogging once in a while when the mood hit me. Therefore, my comments were disabled and I posted inconsistently with short, choppy posts. 

When I had my first blogiversary, some people stopped by and commented on this first post, but otherwise it wasn't widely received. It's also a personal post in which I reveal a major writerly moment. I have a friend who says the rain is cleansing and symbolic, washing away the bad things and bringing in good things. Several times, during hard, heavy rains, something monumental has happened to me. Or maybe that's just in the imagination of me and my friend since we live in a rainy state. It's called the Sunshine State, but it rains quite a bit. Anyway, here's the post. 

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My Summer, August, 18, 2009


I had a bumpy summer, to say the least. The summer started with a flood. For several hours on June 5th, torrential rain and hail kept falling over Miami Beach. When I looked out the window I was shocked to see the streets immersed in water. I was then alarmed when my car wouldn’t start at first. And a week later my car completely died. I had to replace the computer and several other parts, so I was without my wet, moldy car for a few weeks (it took a long time to dry out). It's not a great feeling to be immobile when you rely on your car. Last Saturday was another rainy day to the extreme, and I worried that it would get just as bad as that June day, but it didn’t. The rain poured in around the same time that good news poured in. I just found out that I have an offer from a publisher. I can’t reveal much more since I don’t know all the details and it hasn’t been negotiated yet. So, the summer started off with a bang and ended well. The rain came and went away, I ended one day job to start another, enemies left and friendships became stronger, uncertainty turned into confidence, and bad things were balanced by the good. Overall, this is a summer that I’ll never forget.