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This was a week filled with lots of ups and downs. I guess that’s a life constant, but this week it was bold. I finished my copycat story. It was such a great feeling. And writing a story like that, with a more analytical approach, was very satisfying. I almost felt like I knew what…

HECK YEA! I’ve continued to blog for six whole weeks! I’m still working on my copy cat story using Spar and There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella, and I finally started writing. I feel like it takes me forever to come up with a solid idea.…

Of all the inputs of last week, I found this one so important to me. I love Octavia Butler. She gets me. And I read this article on Axios this week about Feb. 1 2025 being the date of a diary entry of her character Lauren Olamina in “Parable of the Sower” We had a…

There are so many things on my mind, so much input. I feel like its swirling and taking me down! The politics, the treasury, the freak out, the people on planes to Gitmo. I get frazzled and can’t concentrate. Bad news stories are appearing faster than Fibonacci’s Rabbits. Just looking at all those equations makes…

This week has been a swirl of politics and self help. Not like it was unexpected, but still, we’re living through it… The United States has pretty much lost its mind. These are the things I’ve read that are giving me comfort… Elizabeth Bear asks, “Have you tried turning your government off and turning it…

This week we lost two iconic creatives. David Lynch and Neil Gaiman. While I was never a huge fan of David Lynch, and still I appreciated his weirdness. He had such a bizarre take that I really loved and admired. I never finished Twin Peaks because I moved to Panama when it was airing, and…

Why is it that when you have time to write, you have to clean a closet? It’s ridiculous but something I face all the time. My brain KNOWS how to clean a closet, but to edit a short story? It’s not like I haven’t edited before. But my brain just thinks it’s unsafe. I wonder…