Category Archives: author's notes

Comments on life. Mostly true things.

Today has no significance, except maybe this 8

What can I tell you except that my heart breaks a little? But this has become. Unhealthy. So without (much) drama, but with the ceremony owed to seven years, I am saying farewell. Until we meet again.
I’m sure you’ve known something like this: the thing that didn’t become wrong, but somehow is no longer [...]

My Christmas Note to You Comments Off

It has been a hectic December. All leading up to tomorrow. I’m hosting my first Christmas dinner for both my family and my husband’s. Things that seemed very important when I first took on the job have slowly been dropping down the scale of importance. So the day before my big debut, I am calm. [...]

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Winter arrived all in one shot yesterday. A load of snow and plunging temperatures. Out come the goose-down parka and the serious winter boots — the ones that tromp through snow drifts while you laugh at fools with just ankle boots.
I am delighted.
Delighted doesn’t quite capture it.
I am gleeful. Elated. Kid-on-Christmas-morning out [...]

Ponderous ponderings 2

The past two months have been demanding. Creatively and otherwise. This is the busiest time of year for me at my job, plus I have been enrolled in a magazine writing course that was a lot more taxing than I had expected. Thanks to my instructor’s generosity and guidance, some hard work on my part, [...]

By way of explanation Comments Off

I am completely bagged this month. School, work, and other commitments are pounding the last bit of hell out of me. Fortunately, I have a series of excerpts from novels I wasn’t writing five years ago. They were originally published on a former incarnation of the Milkcrate (one or two people might recognize an excerpt [...]