See Previous | See Next This week my garden is very happy for more rain again and is looking very green. And, it turns out there are actually a surprising number of (small) pears on the tree…even if there are zero plums this year. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests it’s about time the pears showed themselves off, and why isn’t the white rose (April Moon) reblooming, anyway? Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years continues to hint…
I am 41 years old and I just figured out how to consistently open fruit cups without splattering. Hint – Tip the fruit cup so that the air bubble is in the same place as where you’re opening it from.
See Previous | See Next This week my garden is sad that I’ve been so busy lately and haven’t been watering it properly. Even still, one of my roses has given me one more sweet flower to cheer me up, and the evening primrose also. The plantain lily smells so sweet it reminds me of my mother’s perfume. And the sunflowers are bright, bright standing in front of the road. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years shows this is…
Warning: This post contains thoughts about a big, existential sort of topic, triggered, in part but not in total, by the recent devastating fires in Maui. At the moment, I am able to approach it with curiosity, but that’s certainly not always the case, and it might not be the case for you right now. If you don’t want to be thinking about climate change and other slow-moving disasters, and what some of the potential follow-on affects might be, even…
Two weeks ago was the Final Installment of SSCS 01: Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory. I hope you enjoyed it! The next SSCS will start up in January. Although SSCS 02 was written using the same approach as for SSCS 01, it’s a very different story written in a different style. One of the great things about my SSCSs is that I get to use them for writing experimentation! I won’t be posting the SSCS…
See Previous | See Next This week the wild mass that is my front garden is being very persistent with its late-summer blooms – sunflowers and echinacea and Queen Anne’s lace all tangled together. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is rather a mish-mash, but with more emphasis on roses than how things are looking at present. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 has more roses and more emphasis on fruits (plums and pears) than what I’m presently seeing. …
So! Did you catch that? I just published a short story (technically, at just over 10,000 words, some people would call ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’ a novelette – but I’m not sure I’m ready to consider myself quite that fancy). Now, you might be asking: Published? Where? Answer: Here. On my blog. This really does count as publishing. Merriam-Webster defines ‘publish’ as “to disseminate to the public” (and it defines ‘disseminate’ as “to spread…
See Previous | See Next This week things in the garden are getting a little leggy and/or drying out in the heat of the Colorado summer. But, the fruits of the summer are also starting to appear, so the birds and raccoons are probably happy at least. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is trying to hint at more roses to come, but I’m not so certain that’s what this particular summer has in store. We’ll see. Looking back…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 31 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… The desert is made up of losses, and now they number in the thousands, in the tens of thousands. That is enough. The desert is death, and…
So. I super-dooper love the Chinese fantasy drama The Untamed. The show is set in an ancient kingdom both during and after a great war between the clans, where the main character, who is gifted in black magic, has created a powerful, dark artifact to vanquish his enemies and help his side win the day. It’s 50 episodes long, but the actual war, from start to finish, comprises only about 10 of those, because who wins a war – and…