I’ve been working on a long post about our nation and our current political climate, but that’s a dissertation that’ll require another month to sort out in my head and hone. In the meantime, I wanted to reflect on 2017 and look forward to what 2018 may have in store for us. 2017 Writing Goals:…
A new year has arrived. Normally this is a cause for pausing and reflecting on everything that came the year before, the good and the bad, and setting goals for the next one to come. But after watching the world lurch hard to the right, watching thinly masked racists gain power as they threaten to…
We’ve nearly made it. We’ve past the marker for the beginning of the holiday season, that season of joy and family, love and friendship. Thanksgiving 2016 has passed us by, and we spent it with the kids and had a wonderful meal that Jennifer and I spent the day working on. She did more than…
It topped out at 135,000 words. But on Saturday morning I wrote the final words of my latest WIP, the novel Summer, and put it to rest. It’s cooling its heels in a folder on my drive now, and I will do my best not to revisit it until the holidays are over and 2017…
Yesterday was Halloween. At our house, we are on the wrong side of a very busy road where the speed limit increases to 55 mph, so we don’t get trick or treaters. That means we really don’t bother with the holiday since the funnest part of it isn’t something we get to enjoy. I do…