I just realized that in yesterday's long, rambling blog entry I did not even mention the weather. So...yesterday it was sunny and warm, with a high of of 84F. Today essentially the same, only a high of 83F.

I hardly slept last night, so...let's keep this short, shall we?

Last night we watched John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps (2000) for the first time ( Read more... )

Sunny today, and if only for that it seemed not so cold. Currently, it's 40˚F.

I actually slept until almost 9 a.m. this morning. That hasn't happened in months. I slept eight whole hours.

Today, I wrote ad copy for Comes a Pale Horse, and then I went back to "Refugees" and added a new scene. Because I couldn't get over the feeling that it had ( Read more... )

A morning with clouds and sun, but the temperature dropped all day, and by sunset it was overcast and very cold. Currently, it's 42˚F, with the windchill at 39˚F, and we have a freeze warning for tonight.

This morning I read back over the afterword for Comes a Pale Rider, and, unexpectedly, I did about a hundred line edits. Then I began laying out ( Read more... )

This morning on Facebook I posted one of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes: I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden. And I said, "These days, this quote makes me think of my father, who died in 2007. We'd been estranged since 1990. We did not speak the last 17 years of his life, and that is one of those great regrets ( Read more... )

I've been awake since 7:26 a.m. This has become normal. Fuck me if I know what to do with all that morning. Anyway, it's presently sunny and a scorching 57˚F here in Providence, heading for a sweltering high of 59˚F. Meanwhile, it's 76˚F in Birmingham, and the high will be 88˚F. Once upon a time, years back, winter was the season that I feared, but ( Read more... )