So, my mom. Widowed almost ten years ago, with my dad having been the outside-facing part of that marriage – my mother is almost a proverbial hermit when it comes…Continue readingAdulting gets real
It would seem that it is necessary for a “Career author” as it were to put in my 2 cents’ worth about the intersection of AI and the creative endeavour,…Continue readingAI, AI, oh!
I found something on FB the other day and reposted it for responses on my own wall – Couple of reasons why I tthrew that out. February is a cruel…Continue readingIdentity
A long time ago now, I wrote a novel – about a sisterhood. The concept of the “jin shei” bond, a sisterhood of the heart, a “Chosen” family as opposed…Continue readingFriendship passing
Dear love, It’s been two years, today. Two years since you left me. Two years since your body failed you (although your courage never did). Two years since you passed…Continue readingTwo years
…it was the second year without Deck and for some reason it hurt worse than the first. Maybe the air is getting to the wound or something. I’m staring down…Continue reading2022 in the rear view mirror…
…it’s snowing, and moreover it’s sticking, and moreover it’s going to be very very cold over the next couple of days so it’s going to freeze solid andit’s going to…Continue reading’tis snowing…
I still remember vividly the first Halloween I had in America – the way Deck took a gleeful delight in initiating me into Northern American rites and traditions, his absolute…Continue readingHalloween…
Just recently, when Elizabeth II died, there was a story out there about someone going out to “tell the Queen’s bees” that she was gone. There was a distressingly high…Continue readingTelling the bees….