Jane Roper's Blog, page 16
July 30, 2014
Many Lasts (and one First)
There are a lot of lasts happening in our lives right now on the cancer front: 1. Clio’s last visit to the clinic for chemo, on the 16th. We marked the day by handing out homemade cookies to every nurse, doctor and staff member who crossed our paths, plus a few patients and parents, too. We also gave... Read the Rest »
July 13, 2014
Nearing the Home Front
Holy crap, I haven’t posted in almost a month! Yeesh. Well, moving will do that to a blogger, I suppose. The past few weeks have been a frenzy of packing up, moving out, moving in, cleaning, unpacking, dodging painters, installing things and logging miles between various big box stores. I’m a fan of shopping local and... Read the Rest »
June 12, 2014
On the Home Stretch
Holy moses, we’re moving in a week and a half. Our house is officially a complete disaster area, half boxes, half business as usual. It’s a tricky thing to live in a place and carry about your regular routine and be simultaneously preparing to uproot yourself. And man, after eight years in one place, uprooting is... Read the Rest »
May 31, 2014
I Love Facebook, Dammit.
As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to give up Facebook for the month of May, as an experiment, and in hopes of getting more (novel) writing done. I tend check Facebook multiple times a day, sometimes in an almost compulsive manner. Not so much when I’m writing fiction or nonfiction, when I... Read the Rest »
May 20, 2014
A Zillion Down, Three to Go.
Yesterday marked the end of Clio’s fourth to last round of treatment. Only THREE MORE LEFT!! What does this mean? Only three more doses of vincristine. This is the stuff largely responsible for the fact that while Clio’s got lots more hair than she did when she was getting doxyrubicin, it’s still pretty thin and... Read the Rest »
May 16, 2014
Stunted
This post, as titled, could be about this blog. Or “stalled” perhaps more aptly. Not sure why, but I just haven’t felt compelled to write much here lately. That is, I think of little tiny things I could write here…glorified Facebook statuses (stati?) really. But nothing meaty enough for a whole post. I’ve also stayed away because... Read the Rest »
April 26, 2014
Follow The Yellow Brick Free Stuff!
I’m writing this post while we’re watching The Wizard of Oz, so forgive me if I sit and think some more accidentally insert words if I only had a brain from the movie into what I’m writing. It’s a perfect movie day, really — a rainy Saturday, Clio on steroids and not feeling well, Elsa recovering from... Read the Rest »
April 19, 2014
Escaping, Clinging, Rising
I‘m enjoying my last couple of hours at Wellspring House, a sort of B&B for writers out in Western Massachusetts, in a beautiful little town. I came here for a week way back in 2011 to work on Double Time and it was a fantastically productive time. You get a room with a desk and a... Read the Rest »
April 10, 2014
(Un)even Steven
Oh, my poor derelict blog. These last few weeks were a whirlwind — nay, maelstrom — of packing and prepping and de-cluttering as we got our house ready to sell. “Got,” past tense, because we’ve got buyers! Didn’t even make it to the open house. So I’m sitting here now in our gorgeously sparse, staged... Read the Rest »
March 18, 2014
A Fresh Start
Well there’s a big reason I haven’t posted for the last nearly-two-weeks. I’ve been a wee bit busy and preoccupied because…We’re moving! The contract isn’t signed yet, but the lawyers are reviewing it, and already our current house is a box-filled, partly denuded version of itself as we de-clutter, de-junk and prepare to de-part, hopefully... Read the Rest »
