Man, am I sore! We've stepped up the physical therapy now that I'm getting my balance back under control. Doing step-ups (both onto a box and onto a bouncy half-ball), marching in place (on the bouncy half-ball), duck-walking with elastic bands around my feet, and working the leg machine with one leg at a time (I keep forgetting to figure out how ( Read more... )

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Jenelle's memorial service is Saturday at 9am at the college where she used to be Dean. They've got another venue in case it rains, but I hope we can have it at the school. I haven't been asked to speak, but I'm going to write up a short piece just in case they ask her friends to say something. Not sure her friends realize I'm a writer ( Read more... )

Spent the night downstairs in my chair ... when it came time to go to bed I just couldn't face the steps and I was afraid I'd get stuck upstairs in bed and not be able to get back down to my chair and cokes and snacks and meds ...Pip had to leave for work at 5:30am so I'd have been alone up there ( Read more... )

Spent the day at "the farm" - what's at this point a vacant tract out in the country owned by J's in-laws. Large cleared field that will become the pony pasture, some woods (with quite healthy poison ivy) and what purports to be a river but is actually a large creek at this stage of its life ( Read more... )

The Summer Festival of Writing is underway. I've enjoyed the two webinars I attended. The mini-course I wanted to see yesterday was postponed due to illness but they're promising a reschedule. Today we had a Q&A with two agents from Folio Literary Agency in New York. Their opinion is that YA Dystopian is on the way out ( Read more... )

I am loving Zoom meetings ( Read more... )

I have signed up for a Thing ...

The Summer Festival of Writing is a 4-month virtual convention (they have a payment plan!) that gives you access to famous authors, agents, editors, and advice. It's pretty much every day but Sundays and even if you don't attend every single session, you'll get your money's worth by the end of June (IMHO). They've ( Read more... )

Just lost my best friend's mom. She was in her 90's but it still hurts knowing she's not out there somewhere. He's still trying to arrange everything so no idea when the services will be or where. I'm pouring over my computers and cameras looking for photos for the services, hoping most of them weren't on that one memory card that got corrupted ( Read more... )

So I have sacroiliitis now ( Read more... )