on Reading and Writing and All the Speculation In Between
Ironic that it’s been … eight months since my last post, which was titled, apparently fittingly enough, “Burnout.” I have kept meaning to return to the blogging habit, yet somehow that was a hurdle of ever-increasing height. After worrying for a couple of months about KouKi, we finally arranged for a vet visit, to discover…
There was a bit of a storm delay, but we’re aiming for a weekly cadence, so we’ve still managed it. This time we’re talking about our own favorites – books, that is.
Since gardening work has reached a plateau and I needed another way to procrastinate… err… ruminate about writing, I agreed to Gayla’s madcap idea to start a podcast. We recorded our first episode last night: We’ll see whether there’s an appetite to listening to us ramble about things that have pinged our radars, so comment/like/subscribe…
I thought this was the year I would return to successfully complete NaNoWriMo. Then, November 1, Santino died. Only three months after Natasha, and with next to no warning. We’d been walking with him right up until the day he died. Monday night, he’d unexpectedly sat down in the middle of the road; then he…
This month, hubs and I celebrated our silver anniversary. It’s certainly an inflection point, but in the end, mostly just about helping each other make our dreams into reality. We were able to achieve a milestone this past year that we hadn’t anticipated for a few years yet when we bought our house. We’ve settled…
So 2023 begins. Actually productively. I finished a big editing job this weekend for a nonfiction book that has my cogs turning about the power of the spoken word. Interestingly enough, this particular job is in trade for finally getting one of my novels read into audiobook format. I’ll keep you posted on when the…
I realized this weekend that it’s now officially been six months since we moved in – and two months since we added a dervish of a puppy to our household. We’ve created a whole new world for ourselves in just half a year. It’s remarkable if you frame it that way. Animals are known to…