by CJ | Sep 30, 2016 | Journal
bees have feelings too…
by CJ | Sep 24, 2016 | Journal
ocean on Pluto?
by CJ | Sep 20, 2016 | Journal
…who loves to stand up and claw at the images on my telly… Or drive me berserk wanting food, grabbing my ankle, howling at me as I get up for a cup of coffee— I tell you, devising something to keep a half-Bengal busy is a challenge. Smart. Very. I...
by CJ | Sep 16, 2016 | Journal
Sincerely, it feels great except for the resultant headache. Four deadening shots and a major cleanup, and I spent yesterday face down in the bean dip, and today am energy-short and headachy, but I’m actually looking forward to Oct 3, when we get the other side....
by CJ | Sep 14, 2016 | Journal
In a bit of mental attic rearranging as I prepare to enter the Alliance-Union universe for a new book—I decided—why not do a piece for Closed Circle that encapsulates the history behind it. It’s a short story, but sort of a fictional history sort of...
by CJ | Sep 10, 2016 | Journal
Got it! Jane is now doing a continuity read. I’m consulting notes on our next project. I have a notebook which is one of those ‘what would you grab if there were a fire?’ sort of items, which went missing—it’s my notes. Names, places,...
by CJ | Sep 6, 2016 | Journal
I outline, not your typical school outline, but sometimes bits and pieces of conversation, events, notes, etc, which I erase as I move along, so the total word count both shrinks and expands unpredictibly, sometimes so that even I don’t have a real sense where I...
by CJ | Sep 1, 2016 | Journal
We had breakfast at the waffle place, crashed for an hour, and now Jane is making my birthday present, a ‘happy coat’, or short kimono-type wrap, because the fan in my working space is pretty energetic, and I’d be comfy if I had a light wrap. So that...
by CJ | Aug 28, 2016 | Journal
I laid out because of the dental work, but I’ll tell you, I had a moment in the garden that machine pretty well paid for itself. One of those nasty things that happens to you as you get older is that where YOU think you’ve lifted your feet to is not where...
by CJ | Aug 24, 2016 | Journal
I’ve gotten by on Advil, no problems. I can have hot coffee today, and I can help Jane shove furniture around (prep for the garage sale.) The next appointment is in 3 weeks, to get the stitches out. Then close upon that, a deep cleaning (scaling) on 1/4 of my...
by CJ | Aug 23, 2016 | Journal
Extraction and bone graft…3 stitches. The pain was minimal, really. The cuff for the blood pressure monitor hurt worse than the extraction. Bone graft (they pour bone powder in and stitch it up) no pain. Waiting at the pharmacy while a driver with no...
by CJ | Aug 22, 2016 | Journal
Some of you who were at Shejicon may have remarked that I was moving a little slowly, a little uncertainly—in point of fact the years of sitting at a keyboard have taken a heavy toll since we gave up figure skating: just years and years of not-walking,...
