Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 39
September 12, 2023
Copyedits and Variations
Yesterday was…well. A bad anniversary, copyedits looming, a paucity of good news, all combining in a Voltron of suckitude. It wasn’t the worst day I’ve ...
September 11, 2023
Solemnities Marred
I remember hearing about the second plane hitting the towers. I was in our old apartment whose balcony had a lovely view of a pond ...
September 8, 2023
Life, Oscillating
I suppose botanically they might not be daisies at all, but they’re still my favorites. The first autumn mist is thickening around the firs. It ...
September 7, 2023
Predawn, Gatsby
It’s a pretty perfect predawn. While Boxnoggin was snuffling around rabbit-trails in the yard I could stand and breathe, smelling the turn of the season ...
September 5, 2023
Ambling Strum
I am vertical (sort of) and blinking blearily at the world. Whatever this respiratory bug is, it hit hard indeed; I was laid out for ...
September 1, 2023
Quince and Slight Hyperbole
I do really think this is a quince, though my botany classification skills are deeply mediocre at best. The tree is a real trouper, no ...
August 31, 2023
Fever and Rain
Well, it had to happen. Since we mask pretty religiously around here, we haven’t had much in the way of respiratory illness since March of ...
August 29, 2023
Energy Freed
With the break in weather, the marine layer’s returned. Dawn is incrementally later because of axial tilt and hides behind cloud-cover to boot, so Boxnoggin ...
August 28, 2023
Topographical Lunacy
Yesterday I developed the burning ambition to learn crochet, since there’s a sweater pattern I want to try. Despite being told this is madness and ...
August 25, 2023
Tinderbox Season
I got a snap of morning glories a few days ago while wildfire smoke was passing high over us, making the sun an orange smear ...
