Sunny today, but not warm, and there's some genuinely cold weather headed our way next week. Our high today was 55F a windy ( Read more... )

Mostly sunny today. Our high was 77F. A good start to March 2024. And I try not the think about what sort pof hellscape Trump and the MAGA lunatics will have transformaed the world into by next March ( Read more... )

I actually have time to make a journal entry today, while Spooky takes Hubero out for his last walk before we leave for home. It's partly sunny, or partly cloudy. Outside, it's 39˚F and feels like 37˚F. In Providence, it's 46˚F. Last year, it was the middle of May before we saw a day in the mid seventies. I expect the same this year, or worse ( Read more... )

Just a quick note. I awoke this morning, after a windy night and only three hours of sleep, to an inch and a half of new snow. I went the fuck back to bed, and when I woke again, two hours later, it had melted away ( Read more... )

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. ~ Stephen Jay Gould

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A mind enclosed in language is in prison. ~ Simone Weil

That quotation came to me this morning courtesy Fred Cleveland, who was one of my first constant readers (we're talking 1997). And it comes, curiously, after a day of struggling with the beginning of the second third of Alabaster: Boxcar Tales. One of those two ideas I spoke of yesterday. An ( Read more... )

Thank you for yesterday's supportive comments. They're much appreciated ( Read more... )

Grey and chilly here in Providence today. Maybe a high of 71˚F, and there might be rain. April in June. And today is the sixth anniversary of Sophie's death. And five years ago yesterday I finished "The Steam Dancer (1896)." And on the 24th, Spooky will have been on this planet another year, and birthday presents are not unwelcome. She has an ( Read more... )

Happy Beltane.

1) You may now read "Random Thoughts Before a Fatal Crash" in the Spring 2012 Subterranean (at Subterranean Press, natch). There's a bit of interesting history to this piece. It first appeared in Sirenia Digest (#64, March 2011), and was intended, originally, as part of the "Back Pages" of The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. But it came ( Read more... )