It's National Poetry Month, and Adrienne Rich did not live to see it. RSI means I've had to slow down the pace of my knitting, which admittedly is partly anxiety disorder-driven. Unfortunately, the disorder remains and I am in the midst of another medication merry-go-round, the side effects of which have begun to make me wonder if some of my ( Read more... )

To wish y'all a Happy Chanukah and Joyous Yule (which weirdly means I'm wishing you no unexpected Vikings showing up on your doorstep during the next raiding season; expected Vikings are okay, though). We've been having some very funky weather, and it has done a number on my upper respiratory system. That would be why I have a new poem out, which ( Read more... )

~ It's been another week of thunderstorms, still odd to this desert dweller. Out west, we'd get days and days of heavy rains in some of the places I lived, flash floods and mudslides, but thunderstorms were rare and fleeting, and lightning didn't always mean rain. We'll get rumbles before we get rain, out here, but we always get rain. I am ( Read more... )

~ I cannot wait to share Stone Telling Issue 4 with y'all. We got fantastic submissions, which allowed us to put together a jawdropping issue, and it's going to be so awesome when it goes live. Also, if you are looking for a good guest co-editing experience, I cannot recommend better than guest co-editing with shweta_narayan under the guidance of rose_lemberg. They have ( Read more... )

I haven't read my flist in at least a week. I'm not sure if I'll catch up or just start from the day I find the wherewithal to start reading again. If there's anything you especially don't want me to miss, please let me know in the comments. This is mostly an "I'm not dead" post ( Read more... )

~ Massive grocery shopping trip for first time in a month, including acquisitions for Major Food Holiday.
~ Finish massive knitted project for sekrit holiday gift.
~ Order yarn for next massive knitted project.
~ Acquire GF protein powder to aid in breakfasting issues.
~ Make GF buttermilk loaf for sandwiching, bread crumbing, other surprise bonus! ( Read more... )

* Had Spouse for a week between schools. Now he's back in Virginia, and September is coming fast ( Read more... )

Four poems subbed, one in need of formatting for subbing, several others in need of likely places to lob them. Still chipping at the unworkable partial draft of the poem I meant to have done by the 25th.

The rest is stress.

I have thus far taken the morning's antibiotics, changed the bedding, started a load that includes a pillow (they take so long, but it must be done), balanced the budget and projected the month, had breakfast, showered, and petted a puppy. Now I'm having lunch, leftover yellow Thai-style curry what Jess made. She can stay. In a bit, I'll be ( Read more... )

Still very much not well. Going to attempt some of these posts anyway, since they have a sell-by date. First, irksome things carrying into the new year ( Read more... )