Joyce Lionarons on Nostr: Good morning! It's very cold 6F (-14C) and no, I will not be going out for my ...
Good morning!
It's very cold 6F (-14C) and no, I will not be going out for my early-morning walk today. I don't have the proper clothing for it.
This morning I've been thinking about the first couple of books I wrote: both of them academic, scholarly tomes. I never expected to spend my retirement writing fiction. Retirement was going to give me time for the serious scholarly work that I had been squeezing into summers and Christmas and spring breaks, having no time to do it while teaching.
A FB friend posted a photo of British Library Humanities 2 this morning, and I felt a strong pang of regret that I left all that behind. I loved research, loved studying thousand-year-old manuscripts. But after 10 years away from it, it would take me at least a year to catch up on what's been done.
And besides, I have fun writing the Cordwainer books.
Have a good one, friends.
#Today
It's very cold 6F (-14C) and no, I will not be going out for my early-morning walk today. I don't have the proper clothing for it.
This morning I've been thinking about the first couple of books I wrote: both of them academic, scholarly tomes. I never expected to spend my retirement writing fiction. Retirement was going to give me time for the serious scholarly work that I had been squeezing into summers and Christmas and spring breaks, having no time to do it while teaching.
A FB friend posted a photo of British Library Humanities 2 this morning, and I felt a strong pang of regret that I left all that behind. I loved research, loved studying thousand-year-old manuscripts. But after 10 years away from it, it would take me at least a year to catch up on what's been done.
And besides, I have fun writing the Cordwainer books.
Have a good one, friends.
#Today