Almost two months have elapsed since my last blog post. While I keep the blog mostly for myself, as a kind of record of my writing/teaching/slow descent into madness, I'm also conscious of my one or two or six subscribers who may not want to constantly receive updates about my chaos and indecision. Also, I've been prioritizing, and managing to stay fairly on track with my priorities, and sadly the blog falls low on that list. Mainly, I've been trying to work out issues with m

Remember when I said I was going to start blogging again and then there was radio-silence and crickets for two months? Hahahahahahahahaha ... yeah. It wasn't for any terrible reason -- it was just because I've kept busy doing various things and blogging fell kind of low on the priority list. The primary task I've been concentrating on this summer has been mundane but time-consuming -- I'm slowly repairing and repainting and reorganizing our home after 14 years of five peo