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Thanksgiving thoughts
This has been a lovely holiday for me, even though I’m far away from friends and family, and there are those whose absence I was constantly reminded of today. I’ve had a full-time job for the last...
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Road Trip
The last few months have been hard for me. I’ve had drama both personally and professionally, a two-month bout of unemployment, and a really nasty case of strep throat (which I am just barely recovered...
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The Things I Don’t Talk About
The more I write, the more people ask if they’re seeing bits of my life in those sentences. It’s bound to happen; it happens to nearly every writer. My writer friends who are women tell me it happens...
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Holiday Traditions
I don’t have a lot of family traditions. Growing up we had big family Christmastimes that weren’t about religion – we rarely prayed before a meal and didn’t go to church – but over time my family...
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My son, and the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary
“Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard? Are we prepared to say that such violence visited upon our children year after year is...
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Spring Cleaning
This has been a slow, quiet, weekend. Not the bad kind of slow and quiet–where you’re anxious to do more but feel trapped into doing something else, or worse, nothing at all–but the good kind that...
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Slow and Steady
Recently, a great number of loose ends have begun to weave themselves together, and goals I’ve been working on for a year or more are suddenly falling into place. That includes: Medical A) I don’t have...
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Money and Me: 2014 Edition
At the beginning of 2014, I started a project that would turn out to be far more ambitious than I’d expected, and ultimately change my life in big ways and small. I made a budget. For most people,...
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Photo of the Week: Goodbye, Animals
Taken August 14, 2014 with a NVIDIA Shield tablet. My son has had summer school in the morning, followed by camp in the afternoon, for six weeks. Each day as part of our getting ready routine, I asked...
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An Adventure, in Three Screenshots
It started innocently enough… We found our way home eventually, and immediately fell into a deep slumber, as if we hadn’t really ever woken up this morning. I know it was all true, though, in a hazy,...
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Reflection, 2015
Looking back over 2015, and really, over the last several years, it’s immediately obvious that I have had a lot of struggles. My life now is vastly different from where it was 10 years ago. I’ve left...
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Bad News: Can’t Be at Boskone
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend Boskone this year. I lost my sitter suddenly, and with my son’s disability, new staff takes time to train. I was so looking forward to seeing everyone! I am...
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3 Weeks Post-Surgery: Mostly Good (Even the Cancer Part)
Three weeks ago, I went to the hospital for surgery. They removed half of my thyroid, because it had developed nodules (what they call thyroid tumors they suspect are benign) and had swollen up enough...
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Updates and News (August 2016 edition), or, Damn, That Was the Hardest Month
#SFWAPro In August: I fell apart a bit. I’ve said it before but this year has proven to me that the last 3 weeks of August (and the first week of September) are the hardest “month” of the year. That’s...
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10 things that made my 2016 (a little) better
For most people, 2016 was a fucked up, miserable, factually terrible dumpster fire of a year. Icons died, racists thrived, and everywhere you looked, someone else was telling you not to be so upset,...
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