Serenity… an expedition

Every spare moment, these days, I seem to have my nose in a book. No hardship, that, I love to read, but these days it too is almost like work. My itty bitty library across the street is coming in so handy. They have a very limited selection there, but with being able to order [...]

So, my book is set in the Antebellum South – Tennessee and Louisiana, particularly, and deals with slavery and other things going on – and, of course, I know little or nothing (beyond the basics) about any of it. Thus, the lots and lots of research before I even begin. It’s amazing how many questions [...]

I mentioned today, on a thread at feministe (which I won’t link – because I don’t particularly want the trackback and this is not really related to post, but it was called “Labels”) … Anyway, I mentioned that I was currently “ist”less – not feminist, not womanist, and not this or that ist, except for [...]

Because, after we left the house we lived in for my first 7 years, my mom went through a period of trying to move us into places I simply couldn’t go. I, being the brown one in our visually “white” little black family. My mom would go to rent an apartment, sometimes taking my older [...]

Which is also undone, for that matter. Looking around my house this afternoon I noticed that my fridge is freshly cleaned but my kitchen is a mess; all the laundry is washed and dried, but not put away; my mom is all washed and in bed, but her bathroom is only partly cleaned; cat is [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I want to I am going to write a book and, today being the first day it’s been only me and my mom in the house, I decided to get started right away because scenes are writing themselves in my head. And that’s what I sat down to [...]

I know, it looks like that, freed from last month’s “write something daily” promise, that I am now taking the opportunity to write nothing at all. But that’s not really the case! In fact, I missed sitting down at the keyboard and whining about having to write something. But, I couldn’t (well, not really). It’s [...]

NOW had an election. Who knew they even had elections? My thoughts are still with the people of Iran. What a mess – it certainly seems incontrovertible that election was very flawed, but there is more to it, of course, and hopefully something good will come out of all this tragedy. I hold no brief [...]

I don’t really like the ocean. Well, I like to listen to it and look at it, but I don’t particularly like to be in it. I can’t swim, you see, even though the rest of my family swim like fish. Me – one too many times getting almost drowned, as a joke or something, [...]

It’s a good thing that I’m a fast typist, if not yet a fast writer. It’s 11:40 pm. I can’t really even say I’ve written anything today (outside of my head) because while I’ve started a couple of times to put something down, I never got past the first paragraph. It’s frustrating, no? When you [...]