No one has ever described me as socially awkward to my face. I was often called a weirdo in school and maybe that counts. But I have felt socially awkward my entire llfe. I didn't know that absolute knot of dread was anxiety until I was diagnosed as an adult. What...
It's been pouring rain in California and that is both a very good thing and a bit of an issue. We need the water, preferably not all at once. It is perfect reading weather as long as you can be warm and dry and still have power. It's also perfect writing weather and...
Wasn't I just here? It's December first as I write this and like November 1st it is raining in the parched Bay Area, even in our rain shadowed valley. It's a bit too chilly for the cat — and for me — to have the window open but I will anyway because the smell of rain...
October was very un-October this year. I think it may be the forever summer feel of Santa Clara valley that lingers until the rain starts which was yesterday, the first of November. All my autumnal, witchy feelings were on hold until it was truly cool enough for...
September is that month between summer and autumn, hung in suspension between the swelter and cool release. Or that was my understanding of fall. On California time, autumn really seems to come when the rains begin. I'm told this happens in October. I'm writing this...
August. In the South it is dog days and long afternoons of swelter until the sky cracks open too wet to hold in the moisture anymore. In California it seems to be the season of low morning haze that never means rain. It's mid-day cloudless skies and a breeze that...
I got back on the reading horse in July. Having a podcast really does push you into that "I must read all the things" mode. Plus bookclubs, because clearly I am unhinged on some tiny level. Tarot Witch by T. Thorn Coyle — Coyle's Seashell Cove Paranormal Mystery...
(if anyone reads this?) that there wasn't a reading update for June. Oh some reading happened, mostly magazines, and lots of podcast listening. I'll tally some of my current subscriptions (magazines on Libby, podcasts on Apple Podcasts) at the bottom. June was a bit...
May has been an odd month. I ended one of my day job contracts this month to have more time for writing, reading, podcasting, and publishing then promptly took a week of vacation to spend with my bonus daughter while she was visiting us in California. My son and his...
Before the pandemic, I'm guessing I averaged fifteen to twenty books a year with lots of magazines and "long reads" from different periodicals thrown in. I, like a lot of folks, read more during the pandemic and then cranked up my reading at the end of last year to...