Musing

Home and New Year

I’m back up and running. Well, jogging along. I suppose. Travel takes it out of me, and this trip was a great visit, but I got home exhausted. After falling asleep yesterday afternoon and sleeping for twelve hours straight, I feel human again today. Which is good, because I have a ton of stuff that… Read More Home and New Year

Musing

Progress Report

I have my bed! So happy about this. I love the four-poster, but it’s more that we aren’t sleeping on a mattress on the floor at home any longer. The apartment is packed. Moving truck happens this coming Friday.  This weekend is wainscoting and trim. All the fiddly bits! I got creative over at Mad… Read More Progress Report

motherhood, writing

Porch Musing

  The First Reader and I were sitting on the front porch sipping coffee and waking up, when I started quizzing him on military colloquialisms. He rubbed a hand over his face, standing his hair on end, blinked at me, and pointed out he’d only technically been in S4.  See, this is why I need… Read More Porch Musing

writing

Work in Progress

  I was asked yesterday what I’m working on, in the writing department.  Um. Too much? I’m sitting here this morning writing up the novel my First Reader and I plotted on the car ride yesterday – 7 hours of driving gives us loads of time to talk, which is lovely, but – and wondering… Read More Work in Progress

Odd Prompts

Metronome

  Life rarely follows the steady, even beat you think you wish it would. Life changes relentlessly, and with each little change, the future shifts like a kaleidoscope turning. There’s no going back to that past pattern, no way to reset life into a previous schema you have already passed by. Time flows onward, and… Read More Metronome

writing

Progress Report

I meant to write first thing this morning. I mean, I meant to blog first thing this morning. I wrote, instead. I’ve been working on a short story and I’m nearing the climax of that. So I’m excited about it and wanting to finish it off so I can send it to the editor of… Read More Progress Report