May 2, 2017 (Tuesday)

May 1, 2018

Just moments ago, at 6:15am, I saw my neighbor get into her car to leave for work. The child will be still in bed, but breakfast will be laid out for him. Later, a neighbor will pick him up and ferry him, along with her own kid, to school. The job my neighbor commutes to […]

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May 1, 2017 (Monday)

April 30, 2018

And so it is Monday again, and I’m back to the routine of getting up quite early, and writing here first thing, feeling slightly buzzy as I try to wake up fully. It was so cold in the house when I got up (61ºF) that I turned the heat back on. I’ll turn it off […]

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April 30,2017 (Sunday)

April 29, 2018

I really felt the effort I had to make (started to make) to “calm” myself into a focused, meditative state of mind this morning. This being Sunday, I messed around for probably hours before sitting down to my morning ritual(s). It being Sunday, I’m also doing meditation first, then morning pages. I don’t want to […]

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April 29, 2017 (Saturday)

April 28, 2018

The time of writing a novel – or, let’s be humble: a story – is calendar-less. Here, in these pages, each entry starts with the date. In my story- (what I hope to be novel-) writing, each day’s new entry just starts with a line. An observation. Since I started on my fiction project, beginning […]

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April 28, 2017 (Friday)

April 27, 2018

Yesterday the sun came out. Yesterday I walked, and yesterday I eventually stopped at T.[cafe]. John Coltrane’s “Favorite Things” was playing quietly in the background. I decided then and there that T. will be my new favorite cafe. It’s foggy right now. My head still feels foggy. I can see the house below me (its […]

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April 27, 2017 (Thursday)

April 26, 2018

I read an article by a woman who grew up on a dairy farm and wanted to become a dairy farmer herself. But when she was 17, her father laid down the law and told her to go to university and become something other than a dairy farmer. This was in Wisconsin. All the dairy […]

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April 26, 2017 (Wednesday)

April 25, 2018

Big rain storm yesterday. It was described as a Nor’easter, but no snow. I’d say “of course [no snow, it is April 26th],” but here it seems anything is possible, including snow in late April. Would have been possible. Except for me to live in a city I actually like. Yesterday I started reading Lauren […]

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April 25, 2017 (Tuesday)

April 24, 2018

You know, it’s funny. A while back – probably because I was really getting into the rhythm of writing these Morning Pages – I had this idea of using them as the basis for blog posts I would call “So, last year.” It would have been – the title, I mean – a pun: with […]

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April 24, 2017 (Monday)

April 23, 2018

Good lord, it’s early. Back to the grindstone…? Should I call it that? I’m not the one who’s grinding anything, I’m just along for the ride. I don’t know which ride this is, or where it’s going. The sun is up, still low on the horizon, very low, but rising. Every damn thing out there […]

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April 23, 2017 (Sunday)

April 22, 2018

So, yesterday people were “marching for science” – in the rain, mostly. It looked like the weather was raw and ghastly not just here, but also to the south of us. There obviously were areas of the country that had milder, kinder conditions. Not us, though. Mother Nature’s switch was whacking us good these past […]

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