Leaping forward, falling back  

Last week in San Francisco it was sunny, warm and glorious. This Monday I'm sitting in my desk in a huge sweater. I finally gave up and turned on the heater.

I have my first vaccine appointment and have made plans for TWO trips out of town to visit long lost friends. That makes me feel sunny, warm and glorious.

But I am lost and confused about my writing life - fiction is scary, dark uncharted territory. I want to put on a big sweater and curl up by the heater.

It feels like 2021 is going to continue delivering moments like these - radiance and fear, hope and discouragement, progress and failure. So, as I pilot my raft down this uncertain river, I'm working on being grateful for whatever's before me.

Here's to embracing variety!  

April 5, 2021