Realized the fifteen minute thing was completely my problem today, no interval of time seemed quite long enough for me to get settled and immersed and I know there’s a trick to being able to do things for fifteen minutes, but when I can spend fifteen minutes searching for the right sized knitting needle or for the little boy shoe, or lord help me, the quote on-line that I wanted to cite… it does all just feel wasted. All, of course, it’s exacerbated by the not-sleeping and the husband gone four days now, and four days next week… 1703 words more today, bringing the total to 13,610. Bed!

Sister, you rock my tiny world.

And you know the quotation from Doctorow, right? About the headlights? Hang on…here we go:

“It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

And now to bed, because I have to get up in 8 hours to start dreaming, idling, and dallying once again…. <3

Jenny, I, too, feel my life is in 15-minute intervals, none of which is long enough to focus. but then someone said something yesterday that gave me pause, that biology is keeping us from focusing too well on any one thing so we always have that corner of our consciousness awake to the potential dangers our children might be getting into. and that made me feel, if not relieved, at the very least as if my terrifically scattered brain has a purpose.

Thank you for writing about your election night experience. I’ve wanted to write about it but I just can’t find the words. I keep talking about it with anyone who will listen, trying to make sense of such a profound experience. Reading about it from your perspective helped! I wish that I was in a city that appreciates the victory and not one where racial slurs are being graffitied all over the place.

I am so excited about your novel! When I saw the pull quote in this entry I thought at first that you were giving us a little glimpse of the story. I can’t wait to hear what is happening! Keep on pluggin’ away!