The Barry Manilow song, “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”, now becomes an earworm in my head, if no one else’s. I can’t say there’s been major upheavals in my life since I last updated this blog/archive. Just a continuing sense of both malaise and frustration, mostly over my writing mojo and the continuing disability in my hands that makes the mechanics of typing worse as time goes by. It’s gotten to the point where I now use a…
Yeah, it’s New Year’s Eve here still, but it’s time for an update, I think. Please excuse my tone; I’m feeling really down at the moment. 2024 was painful, in more ways than one. I had surgery in March to remove all the reproductive plumbing (growing fibroids had filled the unused spaces and were clinging on the outside.) Then I loom knitted two really nice afghans within four months. One was a commission from my mother-in-law and the other was…
I’m wearing these “recovery gloves” (seriously, that’s what the manufacturer calls them) because my fingers and knuckles are screaming for relief. Not only am I typing my NaNo novel up, but I just finished a 6-foot long knitted scarf I made for a Christmas gift. (My first ever! Go me!) I expect to have a lot more pain as November rolls by because the people I love are getting mostly handmade crafts for Christmas. I also expect I’ll be taking…