Ramblings

I am generally quite organized and able to accomplish a lot of things. A lot. Right now, that isn’t possible. It has nothing to do with being disciplined or more focused. I literally don’t have the time or the brain space/capacity to do more than I currently am. As my husband will tell you, I […]

According to my records, I read 48 books last year. For the last couple of years, I read 38 books over the course of a year, so go me for reading more! I’ve talked about most of these books in my newsletter, but they were good enough that I wanted to talk more about them

I figured I’d start the year with some numbers. Last year, my word count goal was 500K. I didn’t make it. When I look at the planning that I did for 2023, I had estimated that I would only reach 450K words and that I’d have to do a writing marathon sometime during the year to

Making Adjustments This is somewhere between an essay and a blog update. It’s the best I could manage this morning. As you may or may not know, my cat died on November 30th, one week ago. She was my constant companion for 17.5 years. I adopted her in 2006. Blaze didn’t come along until 2013,

I recently finished the Water Witch Mysteries Kickstarter.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835431132/the-water-witch-mysteries Here’s my analysis of how the campaign went. Overall, I think this campaign was much more successful than the first campaign I ran for Paper Mage. There are several reasons for this. –Though I grossed less money—$1500 for Water Witches, and $2000 for Paper Mage—I am keeping a lot

October 4th, 2023, marks the two-year anniversary of my full knee replacement. I figured I’d talk about what I’ve done, and where I’m at with it. Has my knee healed one hundred percent at this point? No. I’m close to one hundred percent. Say, ninety-five percent. The incision continues to hurt when I touch it.