Oh look! It's a post!
No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth (which would be a mighty interesting feat from a physics standpoint). Let's just say that life got interesting last fall and then proceeded to get even more interesting as the spring semester progressed. I'm not sure all of the interesting bits have completely been put in their graves, but at least they've been reduced to more managable levels... for the summer, at least.
I'll just say that spinning is a very good replacement for meditation (especially for those of us who twitch when we think we are sitting still). Certainly, it has contributed to keeping me just on the right side of sanity (although there was a moment just before Christmas...but we won't go there.) As one of my friends once told me, fiber is cheaper than therapy. Maybe, I'll get inspired at some point to upload pictures of some of the spinning I've been doing. Recently, it's involved cotton and other cellulose based fibers. (And dyes, of course.)
The good news is that I have (finally!) finished revising the beast once known as the "sabbatical book" and is now titled Forging the Future. Writing and researching this book was harder than researching and writing my PhD thesis. Revising it wasn't much easier. Doing it during a totally crazy academic year probably made it more so. Fortunately, my colleagues have all been pretty supportive and one has been reading/fact checking for me as I've been revising.
I've drawn up a short list of agents, so now it's time for the fun of writing a query letter. How hard can that be?
(Please do not answer that question...I already know and need to be in a state of complete denial.)
Hopefully, there will be more here in the future than crickets chirping while the roaches scuttle around in the dark.
I'll just say that spinning is a very good replacement for meditation (especially for those of us who twitch when we think we are sitting still). Certainly, it has contributed to keeping me just on the right side of sanity (although there was a moment just before Christmas...but we won't go there.) As one of my friends once told me, fiber is cheaper than therapy. Maybe, I'll get inspired at some point to upload pictures of some of the spinning I've been doing. Recently, it's involved cotton and other cellulose based fibers. (And dyes, of course.)
The good news is that I have (finally!) finished revising the beast once known as the "sabbatical book" and is now titled Forging the Future. Writing and researching this book was harder than researching and writing my PhD thesis. Revising it wasn't much easier. Doing it during a totally crazy academic year probably made it more so. Fortunately, my colleagues have all been pretty supportive and one has been reading/fact checking for me as I've been revising.
I've drawn up a short list of agents, so now it's time for the fun of writing a query letter. How hard can that be?
(Please do not answer that question...I already know and need to be in a state of complete denial.)
Hopefully, there will be more here in the future than crickets chirping while the roaches scuttle around in the dark.