On Monday of last week (6/22/2009), my brother Charles's daughter, Marli Jean Hockett, my beautiful niece, was born.

Last night, after only a few short days on Earth, she died of developmental complications. She peacefully went to sleep in her mother's arms as her father held her hand, surrounded by a room full of people who loved her more dearly than any of us could have imagined. Though she has left us for a far better place, where she will be free of any pain and suffering for all eternity, all of us were profoundly blessed by our brief time with her. And in ways we may never fully understand, but will forever cherish and be thankful for.

We will love her, miss her, and celebrate her for the rest of our lives.

Since I think at least two people on this site might be interested in it...the latest (big) chapter of my current Titans story, Family, has been posted.

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I hope you enjoy! Look forward to hearing from you.

Contrary to popular suspicions, I am in fact still among the living. Been battling a particularly stubborn bout of writer's block for some time, but I've managed to start updating at least one of my ongoing TT stories again...

The catch is that they're at my fanfiction.net page ([link]). So, anyone interested in reading them will have to look there.

Thought I'd begin tossing some of my recent textual ramblings up here, and see what happens.

Yeah, finally set up a DA page for myself. Kind of ironic and possibly pointless considering how much I've fallen out of the art thing, but who knows, maybe I'll put some things up someday.

In the meantime, I can at least use this to keep track of some friends, some favorites, and maybe pull in some new site recruits, who knows.