January 2015

A Few Thoughts

A Few Thoughts

It occurred to me on the way home from work today–a year ago I had a boss who spent ten minutes searching her “sent” folder for an email she never sent to me, lecturing the entire time on how she had to be able to depend on me to take care of things that she delegated to […]

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So, About that Escapist Literature…

So, About that Escapist Literature...

Turns out, oftentimes when you really need escapism is when you absolutely don’t have time to read. So one turns (if one is me) to watching Planet Earth while folding clothes, sorting, cleaning, scrubbing… It’s the best I can do. I don’t have time to read, and I certainly can’t write or edit. Some people can,

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What Am I Up To Lately?

Me? Oh, just unhappily meandering around not writing. WHY? I don’t even know. It’s not as if I had nothing I wanted to effing write! No, actually, I do know why. Maybe. I think it’s because when I’m writing, that’s all I’m doing. I keep talking about learning to keep a writing/life balance, but I

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More Research

More Research

Yesterday at the Musical Instrument Museum, I was looking at things and going “this is the music that Jhi Bo knows” and “oh, hey, why have I never heard of a slit drum before?” You’ll be spared the long rant because I don’t have pictures. Well, I do, but my camera is far away and

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