Musings
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Hiya! It’s summertime! Yay! If we’re speaking simply about what seasons mean and bring, autumn is unambiguously my favorite season. Though we live in California and don’t actually get much in the way of changing seasons (we basically go from eight months of boiling heat from a sun hanging in an unremittingly blue sky to…
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… and might entertain you! Hey there! As advertised in my 1 May post, now that this is the only place where I am an Author Online, I’m planning to post twice a month. My semester ended literally yesterday, and grades are due early next week, so I’m seriously swamped with day-job work. So today…
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Hi there! It’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I’ve become increasingly disillusioned with many aspects of my online life, and in the past six months or so, that disillusionment has hit a critical point. I am very much over the megalomaniacal oligarchs running most social media platforms, not to mention the biggest point of sale…
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My big news for April is a new publishing endeavor: As of today (and no, this is not an April Fool’s joke), I’m beginning to publish a serial story on Kindle Vella. The Sea-Mist Cottage Inn is a women’s fiction/romance story about a single mom returning home to rebuild her life, twenty years after she…
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As promised, in lieu of the administrative nightmare that distributing a newsletter turned out to be, I’m planning to do monthly “newsletter” posts here, and just in general use my blog more productively. If you want to make sure not to miss a post you can subscribe right here: And now onto the news and…
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Happy New Year! I hope you had a great night and are looking forward to a bright, calm year. In honor of the day, I thought I’d do a 2023 review/2024 outlook post today. I’ll start by saying that 2023 was not my favorite year ever. My first draft of this post opened with a…
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As of today, my summer is over. Fall classes begin today at my university. Teaching pre-service teachers is kind of a tightrope walk these days, but I’m still passionate about the work. We’re still not fully back to pre-COVID status on my campus; I’m teaching hybrid courses, which means we’re together on campus one day…
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I turned in grades yesterday, so today is officially the start of my summer! I thought I’d commemorate that exciting event with an update about my writing (and my plans for it in the next few months). It’s been a little while since I wrote an update post. Mainly, that’s because my mental health has…
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Hi all, Usually at this time I do a looking back/looking ahead New Year’s post, but who really wants to look back at the dumpster fire of a year we’re finally escaping? So I’ll just sum up: 2020 sucked for me, like everybody else, for a variety of reasons, but I also feel lucky compared…
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Like everyone else, I hate 2020. What a crap-crusted year this has been. BLECH. However, one bright spot of nearly ten months of relentless sheltering in place, barely going anywhere but the grocery: a lot of time to read. I read more than 100 books this year, across practically every genre. 😮 The past few…