Category: Journal

Happy Friday, everybody! It's funny, even not bound to the 8-5 workday, I still get so excited for Friday. My schedule on the weekend literally doesn't change--Goldbug still lives by his routine--and other than other people not working (aka more adult conversation), Saturday and Sunday are technically speaking no different from Tuesday or Thursday. But… Continue reading Friday Update: It’s Updates All the Way Down

It was the best of weeks; it was the worst of weeks. Some of the highs came on days that seemed like they'd be the lows, and some of the lows came on days that seemed pre-destined to be highs. I No-nap day, which I managed to muscle through and produce 340 words despite the… Continue reading (Belated) Friday Update: Highs, Lows, and the Rise and Fall of Femmeputer

And so begins a new year, and with it, THE GREAT PURGE. When you read a lot of books simultaneously, inevitably there are going to be some that just don't cut the mustard. Maybe I'm just not in the right mood for them. Maybe I just didn't have time when I picked something up, and… Continue reading Notes from a Poly-Reader: JANUARY 2021

Always tricky to get much done during a holiday week when everybody's either off-work or off-school, but managed to scrape out ~1,400 words this week, despite all the distractions, mostly in little bits here and there on my phone. I spent a good deal more time thinking, which has become necessary as I hit walls… Continue reading (Belated) Friday Update: Rewrites, Thinking, and Chunks

Aaaaaah-! I can't help it: I both love and am completely freaked out by Boston Dynamics' dancing Atlas and Spot robots. I just can't help thinking about how horrifying it's going to be having a "Thriller" style mob of killbots dancing down the streets (I mean, there is no way I'm resisting that beat)! XD… Continue reading Dancing Doombots (Or, How We Learned to Love Our Robot Overlords)

2020 is finally wrapping up (thank goodness!), which means it's time to do a quick review of the five best books I read this year. Out of the 42 books I intended to read this year, I got to 24. Of those 24, these were my top five (plus two honorable mentions). The Marriage of… Continue reading BEST BOOKS OF 2020

Boy, what a year, am I right? It started waaaaaaay back in January, when I was super pregnant and waiting for Goldbug to show up, and then within weeks it turned into The Plague Year 2020. Who knew? Life-wise, we had a lot of changes. Goldbug came along mid-January and increased the heart containers in… Continue reading The Year in Review (2020) & The Year Ahead (2021)

I'm sitting in a preternatural silence. Christmas is over, and the boys are off with Andy to check out the swollen stream down the street (safely, of course). I've squeaked in a bit of writing--mostly notes, today, but prose-notes--and tidied up a little after the whirlwind of flying paper and (modest) explosion of new toys… Continue reading Friday Updates: Holiday Edition!

Goldbug decided to nap for a smidge longer than expected today, so I'm going to toss up a quick update post while I have a chance. ^_- I'm going to go back to the Sunday Circle structure for this one, because I really enjoyed including things that were inspiring me this week, but I may… Continue reading Friday Update

It's been one of those days. You know the kind: you get a bit of time to work, feeling super motivated to get cracking at that word count and make some progress, but when your hands hit the keyboard it's just...WUMP. Brick wall. The muses just do. not. show. up. The words don't flow. You're… Continue reading One of Those Days…