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Author: Cedar Sanderson
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A Quiet Anniversary
Fifteen years and a few days ago, I published my first blog post. It was unashamedly a Mommy blog, because it was before any social media I knew of (I’m sure Myspace was a thing, I had no idea of it) and I wanted to share the quiet joys of my small family with…
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Back Burner
I’ve been thinking about the idiom ‘back-burnering,’ because I’m having to do a lot of that at work. I’m coming up on a week now, working solo, in a lab which usually takes a team of five. I am not actually doing the job of five — there are things I’m not trained to…
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Odd Prompts: Cloudless Sky
This is a snippet from a potential work in progress. *** Rain fell from a cloudless sky. Sadie flicked an annoyed glanced upward, and then back at her brother. “Are you sure this is going to work?” She demanded. “No.” He didn’t look up from the loose assemblage of pipes his hands were busy…
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Paine on Rights
I have been reading Thomas Paine slowly over the tumult of the last few months in current events, and am struck again and again with how much history resonates. It’s nothing I didn’t already know. Still, it’s not something I thought of on a daily basis. The momentous events get lost in the noise…
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Chasing the Red Dot
I have a tendency to over-focus. I become hyperaware of this one thing, this singular project in front of me, and I get tunnel vision. Nothing outside my narrow field exists. Time shrinks to a bright point of light, like the kitten chasing the red dot. Needless to say, this is terribly useful. Sometimes. …
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Small Successes
Small successes build into larger ones, and so on ad infinitum. Well… maybe not to infinity. But at least until the end of the timeline of our lives. Even at the low points, when we feel that we have failed, there is some small success. It’s just that you can’t always see it. We…
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Book Review: Murder at Mondial Castle
So! Reviews are coming back. I make no promises. I hadn’t been reading much at all for a long time, and I can’t and won’t read in genres I am currently writing in. Which leaves out large swathes of SFF. Besides which, my comfort reads are, and always have been, mysteries. Specifically Brit Myst,…
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Good Morning
I am, to begin with, feeling better. It’s been a long couple of months, and I don’t think it’s over entirely. However, I seem to be back on an even keel, having dumped stressors off my plate with wild abandon until things… got worse. There’s nothing like having the prospect of Very Bad Things…
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Odd Prompt: Elvish
“There’s a squatter.” She looked up from the plans spread out on the living room floor. “What?” Serena asked in confusion. Her father loomed over her, and she tipped her head way back, laughing. “I feel like a kid again.” He grinned down at her. “You look like a kid. Playing building blocks.” “I’m…
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Odd Prompts: Wonderland Snip
This is the last of this year’s prompted writing. I’m going to have a heck of a time going back and stitching this story together. Like a patchwork quilt, or maybe Frankenstein’s Monster when it is done. Snip “Baby girl, come look at this.” The old woman stood slowly, shedding her blanket onto the…
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Maple Leaf Rag
Art and music: The Maple Leaf Fractal and the music that it made me think of as soon as I started to see the shapes emerge from the math.
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For Your Reading Pleasure
And to be a little different this week, listening, too! These are some books I have enjoyed, or that people I really like wrote, or just because I thought my readers would enjoy. It’s the day after Christmas, it’s a weekend, what better to do than put your feet up, sip cocoa, and read…