Our Momentous Move – Part 2
December 30, 2025
I was pleasantly surprised! (See “Our Momentous Move – Part 1.”) My parents’ 20th century modern dining table looks fine in our 18th century, rebuilt-after-a-fire cape.
I was pleasantly surprised! (See “Our Momentous Move – Part 1.”) My parents’ 20th century modern dining table looks fine in our 18th century, rebuilt-after-a-fire cape.
[This blog was written Wednesday, December 3. Its publication was delayed by ensuing moving mayhem.}
It couldn’t have come at a more fraught moment.
There seem to be no end of books about people dealing with cancer, but I haven’t heard of books about grappling with heart disease. Maybe that’s because, unlike cancer victims, people with heart disease die too fast to have a chance to write about it.
I check my email compulsively. If I let myself, I’d do it every five minutes to see if the small press that has said it would reconsider its rejection of my novel if I cut 100 pages has, having read my pared-down manuscript, decided, ‘Yes!