by joangrey | Jan 3, 2022 | Writing Life
New years are interesting. They’re ‘fresh starts’, opportunities to let go of old patterns and habits which aren’t working. There’s a lot of pressure to Make Resolutions and Do It Right, as if you hadn’t made resolutions a million...
by joangrey | Aug 26, 2020 | Photos, Writing Life
It’s been a wild year. It hasn’t even been a year – 2020 is only just past half-way over – and I’m ready for a new start. New England is still lovely, and still ferociously green. Our hens are full-grown and giving us eggs every day. (My...
by joangrey | Jun 12, 2019 | Photos, Writing Life
It’s suddenly summer here – everything is obnoxiously, brilliantly, beautifully green. Flowers abound, and bees are flying everywhere, working hard to make sure we all have lots to eat and see and admire. My lawn is in desperate need of mowing, the trees...
by joangrey | Jun 4, 2019 | Technicalities, Writing Life
Credit: vinh pham Urban Fantasy, Magical Realism, and where are all those werewolves coming from? So, genres. I admit that I find most of what’s currently being called Urban Fantasy (UF) rather repetitive and boring. It’s all werewolves or...
by joangrey | Jun 4, 2019 | Photos, Random, Writing Life
Suddenly, it’s springtime. Just last week, our lawn was covered in at least 9″ of snow and now it’s clear and the squirrels are bouncing around, trying to steal the seeds from the bird feeders. It’s been a good week, really. We had the first...
by joangrey | Mar 26, 2019 | Writing Life
I’ll be posting pictures here once a week of the various random things I do. Not all of these pictures will be about my actual writing. In fact, many of them will be non-writing: my cats, pretty views I see as I go about my daily life, other projects I’m...