Monday February 23, 2025

Short stuff!

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. Occasionally, I will also publish some of my shorter fiction in this newsletter to read for free.

Daily Diary, Day 1636:

Whew! Finished my part of tax prep yesterday, although I will go over everything today to make sure no errors. We have learned to send this part on to tax accountants and not wait for the last bit from our retirement savings. We can email this to them once this document it finally gets here. Doing these steps – especially complicated in terms of business expenses--pretty took up most of Saturday and Sunday.

However, yesterday I also did the last bit of major cleaning up from all the furniture moving, and did the regular weekend cleaning as well (bathrooms, extensive dusting, wet-mopping the kitchen and den, etc.) All this took up to nearly 2 hours, off and on during the day, but was a good break from sitting working with excel sheets! I also did 5 minutes on the recumbent bike.

Today, I had yoga first thing, did the regular cleaning, and now waiting for the weekly visit from Rio. Not much else on the agenda, so maybe a walk or two, another session on the bike (trying to make sure doesn’t hurt my knees), and maybe even back to plotting!

Here is a cool sunset from last week, the light hit some small clouds in such a way that it looked like a UFO!

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