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7 a.m. July 25, 2026 Unintended, but: When I last posted, it was the beginning of the last month of my thirties. I've been "joking" (not haha-funny) that since my food restrictions started, I already feel forty. But, also, in the last year I've gotten used to eating low-fat, and experimented and expanded what I… Continue reading Last Month of a Decade
Part 2 of What I Am Doing While I Am Not Writing 1,000 Words Per Day: Engaging deeply with things written and created by others. In the last two weeks, I binged two podcasts pretty hard. The first is a storytelling podcast, Personally by the Canadian Broadcast Co (Canada's NPR!). Season 4 is Discount Dave… Continue reading Engaging in What Others Make
1,000 words a day The writing resource that changed my life is the book and newsletter 1,000 words by Jami Attenberg. THE NOVEL has always been my writing goal, but I struggled for decades with focus, plotting, action, and, well, finishing a draft. I picked at one idea for more than a decade and ultimately… Continue reading When I am not writing 1,000 words per day …
Calling all e-book readers! I was tempted to put this update at the end, but here it is first thing: my essay about a bad vacation and learning to read tarot came out as a chapbook a few years ago, but was re-released this month with a new cover and e-reader option. And less than… Continue reading I do not count blooms, or steps
It's spring break, as in: spring took a break and went back underground. It's barely above freezing and I cannot remember the last time I saw blue sky. This week, the March wind was so strong it knocked over my Front Yard T-Rex, about which children and their parents shout out to me, saying how… Continue reading I AM ALIVE EVEN THROUGH DARK WINTER!