The Fear of Commonality
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why I write, and why I’m drawn to writing certain things. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s largely a mental exercise for…
Read moreThe Year Of…
Alrighty then…I’m back. Again. And determined to make it stick this time. I miss blogging. Normally I’d have posted a “Year in Review” between Christmas and New Year’s, but 2025…
Read moreAnd Just Like That…
…life tumbled again. The Tuesday night before Halloween, I felt a baseball-sized mass just behind and below Athena’s ribs. She’d been having some incontinence issues that I was treating as…
Read moreThe Trouble With Writing…
..isn’t really the writing (for me). The trouble I have with writing is all the stuff that needs to come after, and the fact that most of it requires sitting…
Read moreDo the Hard Thing
Consuming is easy. Creating is hard. I’ve been noticing a worrying trend with myself lately, and naturally, we tend to notice things about others that bug us about ourselves and…
Read moreA Bookish Post
Not to state the obvious, but I bought books this week. These aren’t even all of them – my husband has a couple in the bedroom, and the new Dean…
Read moreYou Don’t Say
A funny thing happened last Friday night. I finished a story draft for the first time in a year. A full short-story draft that needs revision, and editing, but might…
Read moreWork It
I need to lose weight. Unlike a lot of doctors I read about online, the doctors and nurses here are largely sensitive to…well, the sensitive nature of weight. I’ve not…
Read moreIt’s Time.
I’ve said it before, and can’t overstate enough just how messed up 2025 has been. Between politics and deaths and changes in work and routines and health stuff and…well…*everything*…I feel…
Read more88 Days
That’s how long it’s been since my last blog post. Four days later, on March 21st, someone I worked very closely with died, and that set a chain of events…
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