Life, Interrupted includes a Polar Vortex

We're up to 17 degrees F/-8.3C, our expected high for the day. The lake effect snow is coming in bands, which is both beautiful and gets old. I may go out and re-fill the favored bird feeder, but since the others still have a lot of seed, they can wait.

Life this week has included coming home from the west, reaching a light, and watching a three car slide-up collision that I missed by five seconds. This was a game play by the universe that is hard to stack up to coincidence. My sister, coming from the north, missed it by about a minute. And a good friend saw the accident. Too weird for words.

Although I am still trapped in the north lands due to Life, Interrupted (see private posts for what I will reveal of that) I can only stay another week or so--then I expect I must drive back south (where it's Too D&^* Cold(tm)) due to this house being overhauled. As in, intermittent power, no fridge, no stove. Other sibling's home can't work for me right now, so. . . Adventure awaits.

The Muse stirs. Maybe she thinks things have calmed down enough to start working on the book again? She gave me a couple of cultural tips on the story, and also a short speech by Quinn that feels hugely important. I just have to figure out where it goes in the puzzle.

Someone has done an article on the Alfreda books for Women's History Month. AFAIK it will appear on an AU blog in March. I learned something about my work from it, which is always nice! Will let you know closer to release if it comes out. I did an 1800 word essay for the series, too. On the subversive message of love, sex, and creativity in the works of Jennifer Stevenson. That, too, will be mentioned when it goes up.