In Process -- May 2020

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 23: based on feedback, most of this chapter got deleted, and the rest is part of Chapter 26 now.
Chapter 25: Last month I deleted it. This month I put back half and rewrote half the dialog so the characters were working at cross-purposes to each other. Then I posted it with Chapter 28, because they go together. Maybe I only need one? And if that's the case, it's this one.
Chapter 27: Finished and posted.
Chapter 28: Finished and posted.
Chapter 29: Edit, edit, edit.
Chapter 30: Edit.
Chapter 31: Edit.

Persephone (probably not its real name)
I spent some time with my timeline and fit the B-plot into the A-plot. It worked better than you'd expect. I added about 4000 words.

Short Story
Wrote a flash for a contest but it came out too long so I think I'll polish it and send it elsewhere.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 4

Subs

Knitting
Candlemas by Jean Moss. I started the month on the gussets, wondering if I would have enough yarn. I had enough yarn. Finished.
Soxx #1. Finished. My socks are getting uglier and uglier.
Soxx #24.5 (1). Finished.
Soxx #24.5 (2). One sock finished.

(Explanation) In the book, 24 & 25 go together and between them use two skeins of yarn. I'm taking part of each pattern and using different yarn in each so that's why 24.5.

Open Road (Knitty Winter 2019): Lower front and back done. I added 7" to the bottom because I like things to cover my butt.

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and bought the stuff to sew the neck on that tunic.

What I read: September 2025

LHC #295: "The Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling. Audiobook. Workplace horror? Loved it. "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hard copy, for office Data Ethics book club. The stories about Sheryl Sandberg really made me like my boss better. LHC #296: "The Fated Sky" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. This got moved up the list because Ed had read book 1 in the series and got the rest out of the library. Loved it. He's got the next one in the series upstairs, I suppose I'll read it when he's done. LHC #297: "Bluegrass: A History" by Neil V. Rosenberg. Hard copy. No idea why it was on my list, I don't care that much about bluegrass. Nevertheless, the second half was interesting. I guess the first half was necessary, as it described in great length the way people came and went in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band, and also how technology and social pressures affect how music is made and performed. LHC #298: ...

What I read -- October 2025

"The Moomins and the Great Flood" by Tove Jansson. eBook. I read this because Marissa Lingen loves them. It was fine? This was the first one in the series and the only one available online; maybe the later ones are better. Maybe they're better if you read them as a child. "The Relentless Moon" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. It took a long time to get going, and sometimes I find MRK exhausting. Her white main characters all seem oddly aware of the Black experience. "The Martian Contingency" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. I don't often read subsequent books in a series in quick succession, and my reaction to this one is a lot of why: I found Alma's voice too similar to Nicole's -- sure, Nicole obsessed about food much more, but they both went on and on about "must support black guy in management" an...

In progress - January 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing Persephone (probably not its real name): NOthing Vinterlys: Worked on Chapter 2 some more. Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Georgia (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and half a front to go. Finished. Love this sweater. Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Did a few rows while listening to podcasts. Summer in Tokyo (Isager): Started. I was looking at the pictures and the charts, and the pattern as written is not what is in the pictures! So odd. I am going to finish up two cones of yarn with this project! Pretty exciting. I hope I don't run out of light blue. I was working along on it, and if you go and look at the sweater, it's knit bottom-up, and I was at the part where I only had two colors, about 5" maybe. And I was thinking, "wow, this is pretty ugly! Maybe I should stop...

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