I generally have nothing but disdain for grackles, who come in their scores and eat all the food I put out for everyone else in […]
Category: Musings
Last week, not much.
Good news is, I started work on The American Tour again in earnest. I have another 15,000 words or so to the end, and then […]
Hurrah, inauguration! Everything else, less so.
Like so many people, I cried when I heard the inauguration had actually happened without any last-minute tragedy. But I knew and know it changes […]
Where exactly have I been?
I mean, nowhere actually, but I have been distracted and busy. I finished the freelance job: 55,000 words and four maps by the end. Handed […]
The week, huh.
The freelance project is coming into the final turn, and I am in that weird zone when I am completely useless for anything else. The […]
Five things: onward.
I still miss Jim, of course. I’ve been cat-sitting for Annie until she goes to her loving new home, which means I have been at […]
2020: the things that didn’t suck.
I am writing this as little tiny snowplows rove across my deck, looking for sunflower seeds and peanuts in the several inches of snow that […]
Watching the little disk spin.
This feels a lot like a reboot: my drive crashed when I heard Jim died (and accepted it), and since then I have been restarting […]
Life, going on.
I am still grieving for Jim, of course. I know this will go on; it will come, it will go. I am so grateful for […]
With great sadness.
This morning, James Gunn passed on at the age of 97. We’re not sure of what, but it probably was congestive heart failure. He went […]