Well, Jadey did it FIRST...
She posted for the first time in ages, so, "BAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH," said the sheeple.
I'm still alive here in the GNW. I spend a lot of time doing community stuff - serving on HOA committees such as Parks and Trails, putting in time for the women's club and garden club, and serving on the board of the Friends of the Sudden Valley Library, where we fundraise a LOT. We are a sixth of the way there in our building fund, working towards adding a shell to house a 6,500 square foot county library facility within a community center barn. Also I babysit my granddaughter a great many hours a week, occasionally a grandson getting thrown in there as well.
And I wrote a memoir. The reason that this might be worth mentioning, aside from the fact that it is nearly 300 pages long, is that on my THANKS page, I did a general thank you to all the fandom geeks - you guys - who got me through tragedy and strife, encouraged me in my writing, and pretty much had my back. I also included an essay I penned about fandom relationships in a rather general sense, about why the people we know only electronically might not connect all that well with those in their real lives. In addition, with this being a memoir loosely based on the ten days between Jeff's stroke and his death, I threw in a few of your messages to me that I had kept. With ALW going down, I didn't have all of them, unfortunately. Don't worry - if I mentioned you by name, it was usually by online moniker. The story has segments of "realtime" - present tense narrative of the ten days and nights at Jeff's bedside in the two hospitals - intersperced with essays, poetry, and reflections on our over-thirty-year marriage. I hope it's an effective way to show how one's mind races around in time when confronted with the possibility - then inevitability - of losing a lifemate.
This is a self-published effort, so in about two weeks I will get to stand beside a transparent machine, called The Espresso Book Machine, located at our nearby friendly indie bookstore, and watch my books getting cranked out. They literally arrive in a slot still warm. I imagine it's going to be a rather amazing experience.
So, I've updated. What are YOU guys doing these days?
I'm still alive here in the GNW. I spend a lot of time doing community stuff - serving on HOA committees such as Parks and Trails, putting in time for the women's club and garden club, and serving on the board of the Friends of the Sudden Valley Library, where we fundraise a LOT. We are a sixth of the way there in our building fund, working towards adding a shell to house a 6,500 square foot county library facility within a community center barn. Also I babysit my granddaughter a great many hours a week, occasionally a grandson getting thrown in there as well.
And I wrote a memoir. The reason that this might be worth mentioning, aside from the fact that it is nearly 300 pages long, is that on my THANKS page, I did a general thank you to all the fandom geeks - you guys - who got me through tragedy and strife, encouraged me in my writing, and pretty much had my back. I also included an essay I penned about fandom relationships in a rather general sense, about why the people we know only electronically might not connect all that well with those in their real lives. In addition, with this being a memoir loosely based on the ten days between Jeff's stroke and his death, I threw in a few of your messages to me that I had kept. With ALW going down, I didn't have all of them, unfortunately. Don't worry - if I mentioned you by name, it was usually by online moniker. The story has segments of "realtime" - present tense narrative of the ten days and nights at Jeff's bedside in the two hospitals - intersperced with essays, poetry, and reflections on our over-thirty-year marriage. I hope it's an effective way to show how one's mind races around in time when confronted with the possibility - then inevitability - of losing a lifemate.
This is a self-published effort, so in about two weeks I will get to stand beside a transparent machine, called The Espresso Book Machine, located at our nearby friendly indie bookstore, and watch my books getting cranked out. They literally arrive in a slot still warm. I imagine it's going to be a rather amazing experience.
So, I've updated. What are YOU guys doing these days?