My Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Stories (SSCS’s) are a series of stories that I started in 2018 as something to dabble with, but that I picked up in earnest in 2019. I’m a very slow writer, and at the end of 2018 I had just finished the first draft of my 2nd book. That meant that 2019 was staring down the barrel of a lot of revision time. I like revising, but I’m very slow at that too, and my first drafts…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is the first installment of my first SSCS, which stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story. I’ll say a little bit about this story-type of mine in a future post. For right now, you should just know: a) I’ll be putting out each (quite short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done. (Sometime around July or August?) b) The SSCSs are all somewhat free-form and experimental, and…
See Next This is my first Weekly Garden snapshot for a project that I’ve been working on for a long time. For the past several years, I’ve been collecting pretty photos from around my garden every week, centered on Saturdays. I’ve always been curious to be able to see how things do and do not change over time, and these photos are my time capsule, where I can watch both the shifting of the seasons and how those seasons do…
Here is my first-ever blog post! It is going to be a very short post, because I am slow when it comes to learning and doing new things, and WordPress is definitely a new thing for me, and it is getting late…but I really want to get my first post posted today (January 1st) and not tomorrow! Last year, after the Marshall fire, my unofficial New Year’s resolution was that I wanted to finally start the blog I’d been thinking…