Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels Today’s post will be short. I’m very close to finishing my final self-revision of my novel before I start...

Photo by Philip Ackermann on Pexels For my new health regimen, I try to stick to a schedule of running every other day. Every day, I try...

Photo source: Merlina McGovern The sun was shining hot and high in the sky. The gentle lap of water along the shore of the harbor was...

Photo by Viktor Talashuk on Pexels So, I have now written my first book. I have done a first-pass major revision where I have filled in...

Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels I spent a lot of time on the first draft of the novel I’m working on stymied because I was wondering...

Photo by Patrick Case on Pexels Perhaps, when I have more energy, I’ll write more about the terrible business of children’s sports....

Image source: Calendarr screenshot of https://www.calendarr.com/ It hit about 88 degrees today in Arlington, MA. Hot and humid and an...

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels I’ve been listening to Taylor Swift’s “Guilty as Sin” off her latest album, Tortured Poets...

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels This weekend, I spent a fair amount of time on my novel revisions. I’m about two-thirds of the way...

Photo by Leah Newhouse on Pexels Town lists might seem like a gaggle of gossips. There are whole meme accounts (my favorite is Best of...

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels Yesterday, I felt a terrified panic that would have been right at home in a slasher flick. I’d been...

Photo and art source: Merlina McGovern Sometimes I wonder about life journeys being passed down through the generations. This past...

Photo by Dave Mohammed on Pexels Yesterday I spent my morning revising a horror short story. In the afternoon, I switched over to my...

Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels I’m sitting in my home office and staring at this blank white digital screen. I’ve got Taylor...

Image Source: Merlina McGovern Dinner time for our small family of three is pretty much fend-for-yourself time. This isn’t a habit I...

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels Memory is a funny thing. When I was writing a post this week about memory, I had forgotten a date. It was a...

Photo by Prasanth Inturi on Pexels I’m looking at the calendar, and yup, it’s the end of the month. It’s almost like clockwork at this...

Photo by Merlina McGovern This isn’t some larger question about our collective past. Although I’m interested in history, I’m not a...

Photo by RF._.studio on Pexels I have a short story that I really believe in. It’s informed by a painful trauma in my past, and, for me,...

Photo by Maksim Goncharenok on Pexels I made sure to be clear in this post’s title that today’s blog post will be about my experience...