The Furious Spinner

So, I started a new novel today, My Little Angel. It's based on a story with the same name that I wrote several years ago; it was published in Cemetery Dance. I'm also plotting a book tentatively called Healer and I'm working on Scarf Sisters again. I haven't forgotten about I, Assassin either.

As I mentioned, I'm also working on a project for the library. And I'm getting a new website. I have hired a web designer. (It's a great design team in Portland, Needmore Designs. Check out two of my faves of their designs, Saint Cupcake and Dolcezza Artisanal Gelato.) Working on this new website is taking my time, too. My pledge that I would come home and make relationships my priority has gone to the dogs. My relationship with my creativity is going well. Perhaps the core relationships in my life will be with my husband, my family, and my imagination.

Finally tonight I curled up on the couch, pulled one of my father's quilts over me, and moaned for a little while. My way of grieving? At night I dream of my mother. Sometimes I hold onto her as tightly as I can. But she's still dead.

The rain has stopped. We've been able to walk. It's been great. It's still cold, so I still have trouble with my breathing, but at least I'm out of doors. At Catherine Creek, the grass widows are out.

Some days I can even smell the rosemary outside my door.

The website will go live in sixty days. Yeah! I wonder where I'll be then?

We'll find out more on Thursday about when/if my father will have surgery.

So I'll probably continue to do short posts every once in a while until I slow down a bit. Once the website goes live, I intend to add to it nearly every day, either on Furious Spinner (which may be called something else) or on the Old Mermaids blog. (Yes, my new website will have both.)

Have a good one!

Labels: grief, writing

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