The dancers split the cost of having a photographer shoot one of the shows and here are some of the images (just ones of me, as I don’t feel comfortable sharing the other ones). I have the least ‘flamenco’ hair ever, but what can one do? The opening piece, which was brief and mostly posing. […]

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Our big flamenco show is done. Six straight nights of rehearsal and then two shows on Sunday. I feel pretty good about it. Sadly, I have no pictures as this point. I was part of the opening tableau, danced in two numbers, performed my adaptation of the nurse’s opening monologue from Euripides’ MEDEA, and recited […]

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About to enter a week of daily flamenco rehearsals in preparation for the show. Just got back from a quick road trip to Kingston with my brother and father. Planning for an upcoming overseas trip. Not sleeping much. Needless to say, not writing much either. But I did finish THE DELUGE by Stephen Markley, which […]

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I am still getting reading done, in between flamenco practices! Here are some of the things that have stuck with me. FICTION There are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak. A beautifully-written novel about stories, how they shape us, and how they connect us to the past. One of those books where I promptly have […]

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I know, I should be able to do two things at a time. And I swear, I’m going to thrash out the next scene of the Glass World thing any day now. What I’m actually working on most of the time is flamenco. We’ve got a show coming up and, even though I’m only in […]

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During the rotten cold I’ve had for the last week and half, I managed to finish the kawandi quilt, and here it is in all it’s glory. I thoroughly enjoyed doing it and I’m looking forward to doing another one. Sadly, I’m pretty sure my next planned fabric venture won’t work using this technique, but […]

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Thanks to anyone who bought any of the reissued books in 2024. And, of course, thanks to the fine folks at Open Road Media for reissuing them. I made enough in royalties to cover the ridiculous cost to relicense the Shriekback lyric for THE NIGHT INSIDE, which I really didn’t expect would happen. After so […]

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I hated home economics in high school. I had no patience, no precision, and no particular desire to be there. In the years since, I’ve learned to cook a little (mostly things like soups, where precision isn’t required) and, during the pandemic, I finally revisited sewing. Yes, I am that person. The decision was partly […]

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Almost every book of advice on writing will tell you to read your work aloud. I find lots of advice to be either incompatible with my wonky process (yes, I can draw a plot graph but it never seems to help) or completely impossible (write my entire book again, from scratch, for the second draft? […]

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This year’s total was 143 (give or take a few physical books I may have missed), of which 48 (33%) were non-fiction. The non-fiction percentage is down from 2023, but I maintain that Tony Judt’s Postwar and Caroline Elkins’ Legacy of Violence both count as at least two books. As always, here are some of […]

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