notes & things | 9/9/2025
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Three things this past weekend have marked the transition officially into something like fall. One was the weather, which is dipping gloriously into the fifties, which means not only have we killed the A/C and opened the windows, but also that yesterday I actually CLOSED the ones closest to me because it was chilly. Sleeping, however, is glorious with open windows and piled on covers. Soon it will be time to swap out the lighter quilt for the down comforter we use in the fall/winter. The other seasonal benchmarks were the yearly rewatch of Practical Magic, for which J joined me this year, and the procurement of apple cider donuts from a charming confections shop out in Long Grove (where we also had excellent pizza overlooking a wooded pond and a gorgeous weeping willow that had to be more than a century old by its size.)
I've been making fun seasonally-inspired collages and digging into the new poetry project...a series set in the 1950s. It's a little inspired by McCarthyism and a little inspired by Welcome to Nightvale and probably a little inspired by Weapons (which you have to see if you haven't.) It's not really dystopian, maybe more fantastical, but I never know what may evolve (I've always said if I was a fiction writer, I'd definitely be more of a pantser than a plotter.) I'm about 5 poems in composed over the last week, so we will see if I can keep up my momentum without getting lured to something else that needs my attention. I've also started edits and a final, more meticulous, look though on CLOVEN, the last stage before I start work on the design elements (at least the interior..I mocked up what I think is the final cover design a couple weeks back, which I will share soon. )
I've also turned my eye toward plotting the fun of this year's #30DAYSOFHALLOWEEN. I tend to post bits of older, horror-related projects and fun, but I'd also like to have just as much new content, both here and one on socials, so keep an eye out for new things like an e-chap of the NOLA vampire poems and some new video poems, as well as some horror-related blog posts and such. There is also a fun book object surprise coming, if I can swing it financially, for the paper bundle tier of Patreon (clue: it involves Edgar Allen Poe.)
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