It’s good to hear. I need to write a blog. Been struggling lately. Introverts don’t do too well in complete isolation. Been hard to maintain my spark :/

I teach at a university and suddenly we had to flip everything to online learning (#COVIDsucks). It turns out recording lectures is so much more labor intensive than walking into a room and delivering a lecture. Plus, there’s a lot more virtual hand-holding of students, who are suddenly robbed of access to their usual supports. So….zero time for writing. Actually, less-than-zero turns out to be physically possible. But my writers’ group is all, “But you have to carve out time for writing every day.” Which makes me feel worse, because I70 students say I really can’t.

So thank you for affirming/confirming the need to step away for a bit. Sometimes you do what you just gotta do.

I’m always surprised when I go to my to–be-read pile of books and pull one that has sat so long it is furry with dust, one that I intended to read months or years ago, and I open it up and begin to read, and there, on that page there, see it? There is the diamond I needed this very day, winking and gleaming at me because it knew all along that I’d find it eventually!

Probably. If you’d seen some of my other fiction it might terrify you.