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Winter Storm

We’re in the middle of a winter storm. 5-8 inches predicted if you believe one source, 3-6 if you go with another. Anyway, slick roads, the muffling of sounds that comes with a heavy blanket of snow, temperatures way down near zero. We lost one of our ducks to...

December Duldrums

It is cold in this part of the world. We don’t have a lot of snow yet in Pittsburgh, but temperatures have been below freezing since November left and December began. We are a household with many beloved pets, and sadly the cat that has been with our family the...

November Snowfall

We spent Thanksgiving week in Cook Forest State Park. I took my laptop but did exactly no writing while I was there. I did a lot of knitting though, which was relaxing. We had the first real snowfall of the season while we were there as well. The woods beside the...

October Writing Retreat

In October a friend of mine invited me to join her on a short trip up to her family cottage near Lake Erie. It was a wonderful reset and refresh for me to get back into heavy-duty editing and rewriting after a significant amount of time spent on other projects. It has...