It Begins
Hello, Readers All, First: The Oaklings. The other three acorns have sprouted (though you can’t seem them here) and we now officially have a future grove of...
I'm No Tree After All
Hello, Readers All,Pretty much anything I have to say this time around is in the work. So click on the images and get the full rundown. It’s all temporary...
What? It's Been a MONTH?!
Hello, Readers All, I guess I really have been dropping the ball here lately, haven’t I? Welp, I don’t think anyone’s going to be troubled by fewer emails...
See? Can't Not Do It.
Hello, Readers All, Wrung out and clueless, I’ve ordered a second proof copy of “Graceless” because taking the time to sit down and re-re-read that slight...
No Heat, Heat, No Heat....And So On
Hello, Readers All, Tonight the thermometer I bought today is telling us that it’s 82F here in the living room. That’s nice but we don’t expect that to last....
Winter Finally Returns
Hello, Readers All, A special shoutout to the 47 who got a look at the goods last week. Hopefully it was up to snuff and thanks again. After two years with...
Books, Beliefs, and Bamboozling (oh my)
Hello, Readers All, Best news first: I got the print proof of “Graceless” and once I’ve approved it, the book will be available as a paperback. As I flail...
She's No War and Peace, I'll Give You That
Hello, Readers All, As noted in earlier emails, I don’t generally pay much attention to analytics as that’s a generally a road to dark places. I prefer to...
Endings, Beginnings, Endings
Hello, Readers All, Here we are in that weird limbo between the inevitable anti-climax of Xmas and the coming Bacchanal of New Year’s. Did you get everything...
There and Back Again
Hello, Readers All, I was so sure I’d be sending a newsletter last Sunday from the comfy, warm room at the Hotel St. Denis in Montreal. After all, I did go...
Shouldn't Have Looked
Hello, Readers All, Generally I don’t pay a lot of attention to the analytics that this gizmo tracks and now I know why. Three people opened last week’s...
Hark! Time to Hide
Hello, Readers All, The issue I was having last week with Buttondown not showing previews of the new work seems to be persisting even when trying to do...
New Book, New Stories (copy)
Hello, Readers All, Thanks to the help of my Writing Buddy aka The Accountability Fairy I’ve been pretty consistent at the keyboard since joining the ranks...
New Book, New Stories
Hello, Readers All, Thanks to the help of my Writing Buddy aka The Accountability Fairy I’ve been pretty consistent at the keyboard since joining the ranks...
Content Creation loses out to writing this week
Hello, Readers All, This hobgoblin of consistency insists on showing up every Sunday evening regardless of that work there is (or is not) to share. Here’s...
The Most Wonderful Time of the.....wait
Hello, Readers All, This is what greeted me as I rounded the corner this afternoon on my way home from my morning walk. And, yes, those are handcuffs...
Back to the Grind?
Hello, Readers All, The hot topic this week is that I interviewed for a part-time, temporary position as Editorial Assistant at another company that...
Of Ignored Rocks in Fields, Etc.
Hello, Readers All, There will be more about yesterday’s excursion out to see “a rock in a field”, but here’s the rock in question: Mile Marker One of the...
Irons and Fires
Hello, hello Readers All, Speaking of reading (as well as irons and fires, as in too many), I’m just finishing up my first reading of “The Master and...
Mea Culpa (but not really)
Hello, Readers All, Full disclosure, the piece I started several weeks ago to publish on Medium got shunted aside. This is to say that there is no new Medium...
I'm Baaaaack!
Hello, hello, Readers All. Welp, the laptop has been returned and the bedroom is back to being just a bedroom again. I’ll get my last mini-paycheck this week...
One Step Forward...
Hello, Readers All, As threatened or promised, I’m edging back into some online writing with five weeks left of being a worker among workers. In preparation...
Gearing up for Gearing Down
Hello there, Readers All, Welp, my days as a worker among workers are winding down. The rent job I’ve had for the past two years and ten months will...
Remember me?
Hello, Readers All, Greetings and how the hell are ya? Starting things out after a month's absence (roughly speaking) with some tooting of my own horn. Here...
Book Fairs, Bookstores, and Community
Hello, Readers All, Looks like I'm not exactly nailing this monthly newsletter business here, am I? I'm guessing no one's too fussed up about that and, hey,...
Looks Likd I've Become a Monthly
Hello, Readers All, Honest to Pete, I didn't intend this to become a monthly whatever it is but it's got its own ideas apparently and so here we are. On the...
Horse Latitudes and Other Woes
Hello, Readers All, First, gigantic big massive gratitude 'sploding all over the place to those who have bought copies of the "Plague Year", e-book and...
Bad Habits
Hello, Readers All, I wonder if I should can that salutation. It occurs to me that it destroys the illusion that this is a personal little note sent for your...
See? Can't Not Do It!
Hello, Readers All, This morning I finished rewriting the last two chapters of "Graceless"...again. I know that woman needs more work, but this woman needs a...
First in Weeks, Last in Year
Hello, Readers All, Insert gratuitous year-end sentiment here and accept my sincere hopes that you have sailed through the various treacheries and treasures...
Paperback Writer
Hello Readers All, File this under the heading of Tooting One's Own Horn. Again. We'll keep it short and sweet: I've ordered fifty copies of the paperback...
My Inner Capitalist
Hello, Readers All, It's that time of year! What time is that? The time when I resolutely shove the refrigerator against the door and slam the windows closed...
Still here, still at it
Hello, Readers All! It's that time of year...although, here in New York it's been that time of year since about a week before Halloween. Before I disappear...
ISBN: 9798223472643 - Oh, look! It's a book!
Hello, Readers All, I'm always trudging away in the background no matter how silent things appear to be on the surface. Formatting an e-book for the first...
This and That
How's that rewrite of "Graceless" coming along? Welp, it's not. My editor suggested (foolishly perhaps, not really know me) that I not rush into the rewrite....
"Graceless" Update and MORE!
Hello, Readers All, If you didn't miss me, I sure missed you! The four-year habit of a Sunday night chance to get together was hard to let go of even for a...
Hiatus Alert
Hello, Readers All, This day was always on its way, but here it is. I'll be taking August off from all my other writing and posting activities to focus...
If I Were Into Analytics...
Hello, Readers All, So I usually take a quick look at the previous week's analytics before starting each week's whatever this thing is that I do every week....
Stumbling Along
Hello, Readers All, I'm stumbling here lately and your steady eyes and responses (and, yes, financial support) have been a huge boost. Thank you! While I...
Some Habits, Ya Know?
Hello, Readers All, It looks like about forty of you opened last week's email, so apparently you've got this habit down solidly. I know I do. Sunday night...
Awww Shucks!
Hello, Readers All, As I've been shifting gears a bit and focusing more on other work, I've had moments of feeling like I'm dropping some important balls....
Just Because
Hello, Readers All, It’s strangely easy to forget that I’m not just tossing these weekly missives into the abyss. But thanks to certain Readers (you know who...
The Day Has Arrived
Hello, Readers All, I know not everyone’s on board with a writer who isn’t pumping out the new work nice and regular-like but you were warned. And a bunch of...
One Step Forward...
Hello, Readers All! How the AQI in your part of the forest? That term, Air Quality Index, is something people in Delhi and Los Angeles are very familiar with...
Because I Don't Know I Can't Fly is Why
Hello, Readers All, How's things in your part of the forest? My partner in life and art are on vacation for the month of June and we decided to do what...
Moving slow, moving anyway
Hello, Readers All, I got spanked for doing what I'm about to do awhile back by a subscriber to this list. They called me out for "shaming". Know what? Here...
Just soze you know...
Hey there, Readers All, You may (or may not) have noticed a marked diminishment of shiny new Medium articles over the past mumble mumble months. While the...
Don't Say It
Hello, Readers All, Oh go ahead. You may as well wish me - the woman who never wanted or had kids as well as the one who regularly thanks the gods for those...
Traveling Writer
Hello, Readers All, A certain someone knows exactly where I was and what I was doing this weekend. Suffice to say, for the first time in longer than I can...
Well, That Was Fun (ish)
Hello, Readers All, So now I know not to read the comments. I picked that up within seeing the first ten comments on that piece I published last week about...