Every Day is a New Day

I've been finding a lot of ways to avoid writing. Firstly, I challenged myself with a new-to-me method of knitting. Well, not entirely new to me as I had knitted "top-down" sweater patterns before, but those patterns always resulted in raglan sleeves ... you know, the ones with a diagonal seam from armpit to collar.…

Life in Non Sequiturs and (Trying) to Get My Writing Groove Back

In a New Yorker article (September 13, 2021), author Amia Srinivasan made this observation: "[...] the Internet, [...] has simultaneously given us too much to read and corroded our capacity to read it." The context was feminism and what we think we know about it, but her description of how the Internet has impacted reading…

Waiting, but not for Godot.

I've always been indecisive, sometimes very indecisive, but never not indecisive. I wonder if indecisiveness is related to procrastination because I'm afflicted with both conditions. I have worked on my novel a bit here and there, but I've been spending the bulk of my creative energy learning punch needle work and knitting up some old…

Notions and Sundries #amthinking #amprocrastinating

Wondering about unsolicited writing advice from strangers, whether I should frog my latest knitting project, and what good is LinkedIn for a writer.

Published (Again) and Procrastinating #MondayBlogs #procrastinating

As I mentioned some time ago (and where does the time go ...), my little-short-story-that-could, "No More Tomorrows," was being published again (be still my heart) by Z Publishing House in their new anthology America's Emerging Writers. You can read my announcement here. I love Z Publishing 🙂 Because the manuscript turned out longer than…

I Got Almost … #MondayBlogs #Procrastination

Nothing.  Yes, dear Reader, I got almost nothing for this post today.  I have been fairly productive of late, but not with writing or blogging.  Again, it's the knitting. A friend noted that the buttons on the baby sweater I knitted for a baby-to-be might not be appropriate for a baby. Yes, they are cute…

Patience

It's Saturday and I'm beat after a rather intense work week which includes 1.5 days of jury duty (save that for another post).  I'm sitting at my computer, feeling overwhelmed (per usual) with all the little items on my virtual to-do list.  Where to start? What about that pile of New Yorker articles and NY…

A Beautiful Diversion

Whether you are a visual artist or a visual artist wannabe or just someone who enjoys "filling space in a beautiful way," journey over to this Silk - Interactive Generative Art (http://weavesilk.com/).  Credit goes to Yuri Vishnevsky for Silk and Mat Jarvis for the accompanying music.   The art you created is licensed under Creative Commons. …

8538 (and counting)

I didn't think I would have it in me to write today.  Last night (or rather this morning) I was up until 1 AM.  Fortunately I had the day off work, but I kept napping and we had "stuff" to do so I didn't get to writing again until late.  I thought for sure I…

Spam-a-lot

I'm procrastinating at the moment.  Past time to go to bed but just a few more minutes on the computer ... so I go ahead and check my stats on my blog and I have 12 spam messages.  Usually I just delete them, but some of them are quite funny so I decided to share…