So this is my first Christmas without Colleen. I've already gotten ( Read more... )

It's been a week. I guess. Current earworm is Phil Ochs' version of "The Highwayman", because it came up in #filkhaven. I'm not sure what that particular earworm says about me. If anything.
It being Hanukkah, there has been fried food in moderate abundance ( Read more... )

As the title says, this was my first Thanksgiving without Colleen. Not the first time we were separated for Thanksgiving -- there have ( Read more... )

I appear to have been getting things done this month, but it doesn't feel like it. That's typical for me. Hmm. Let's see: grep grep grep... some cooking, a dentist appointment, flu and COVID booster ( Read more... )

Thanks to this post by @elf, we have a fascinating article: What if emotions aren’t universal but specific to each culture? | Aeon Essays. Apparently recent research contradicts the widely-held theory -- the article calls it the Basic Emotion Theory -- that a small number of "basic emotions" are ( Read more... )

( Content warning: sad anniversaries. )

It's been a strange day. ( CW: death of loved ones )

It's just barely possible that I'm getting a little productivity back, after several years of drifting. Maybe. I did more work Thursday and Friday on $writing-gig-2 than I have in months. Maybe? And I've actually played my guitar(s) and/or sang three times this week. Which I think beats the previous two or three.
The previous ( Read more... )

... so I've been thinking on and off about "Nancy" by Cordwainer Smith. (Go read it. I'll wait.) It still feels a lot like it did during her last few months, except that I can't call to tell her about... It's actually a very familiar feeling; Dad died back in 1999 and I still have to remind myself sometimes.
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I guess I'm in something like a holding pattern right now. I haven't fallen apart, though I'm still allowing for the possibility, but it doesn't feel as though I'm getting much of anything done either.
That's not entirely accurate; I spent the weekend on Whidbey with N and we ( Read more... )