The temperature today soared to 96F, with a heat index of 108F. Then a thunderstorm hit. We breifly lost power, and the temperature dropped about 20F in less than two hours. The heat advisory will be back tomorrow ( Read more... )

Sunny and cold today. It was still somewhere around freezing when I got up at 8 a.m., after a very sleepless night. Our high was 63˚F, and it is now 58˚F ( Read more... )

After two leaden days, the wind arrived last night, the sort of wind that sweeps over Providence and rattles the house. And then, about three a.m., maybe a little later, an enormous thunderstorm arrived. We don't get a lot of those. I was having trouble sleeping, so I was awake. This is the same storm front that wreaked havoc in the South a couple ( Read more... )

Yesterday isn't the sort of day that's easy to blog about. It was the humdrum sort of day that most professional writers have most days.

We are only two chapters and the "editor's epilogue" from being finished with the galley pages for The Red Tree. I expect I'll be able to get them back into the mail tomorrow. I might have finished with the page ( Read more... )

Yesterday was sort of a disaster. And sitting down to write about it - I am a bit overwhelmed at the tedium. Here's the thing (and I know I've said this before): the life of a writer - a writer who spends her every single day writing or trying to write or attending to the busyness that comes along with writing - well, it's a goddamned tedious ( Read more... )