On the bright side, I bought a car. Once the cotton rat (which are not rats, but look like large mice with Disney eyes) moved […]
Category: Musings
Five things.
Fourth week of classes is over, which means we’re just under a third of the way through the semester. How can we be this far […]
Snow, also life.
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 […]
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 […]