Monday, July 7, 2025

What we have been Watching on TV

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 1769:

Edgar and friends: Edgar is still in place to the right of the magazine rack. Miss Teeny is still high up near the ceiling over the vanity, but the tiny spider that had been on the left on Saturday, disappeared that day, and Junior, who was still behind the toilet when I went to bed last night, had disappeared this morning (or at least I couldn’t locate him even when I dusted and dust mopped (very carefully so as not to disturb Edgar or run into Junior. I did, however see and ant along the baseboard. They haven’t shown up again in the kitchen this weekend, but clearly I need to keep my eyes out for scouts—and hope that my Daddy Long Legs are doing their job.

Yesterday, I also liberated one of those small black jumping spiders, by taking it outside, and I tried to do the same with a miniscule spider I found in the sink this morning—not a Daddy Long Legs, but I wonder if it was that spider I called speedy. Before I could get her somewhere safe, she dropped down and disappeared on the dark floor. So I might see her again. And there we have the latest episode of

As the Web Turns.

Over all, Saturday and Sunday were pleasant days, again cloudy first thing, then the sun would come out. It got hot enough so we put on the A/C Saturday afternoon—but didn’t need to on Sunday because there was a decent breeze, which makes a difference.

I did a more cleaning (usual pattern for Saturday and Sunday), and as a result, on both day’s did shorter or less frequent walks. I did have one zoom meeting on Saturday, and two long phone calls on Sunday. But except for my daily posts and some journal work, I didn’t do any writing (on the novella.) I did a fair amount of reading…working on the first book in Sarah Maas’ Throne of Glass series—a romansty (new hip word for romance + fantasy genre.) It is growing on me.

For the evenings, since a number of the episodic shows we had been watching are over, we have been trying to do more movies (including looking at the Best 100 movies list that the New York Time came up with.) We have rewatched Gravity (Sandra Bullock in really dynamite performance.) We also watched for the first time, Yi Yi, a long but very lovely Taiwanese film, about a family – much of it seen through the perspective of a young boy, and Past Lives, about two Koreans, who knew each other as children, then reconnect years later when the man visits the woman in the US. Very bitter sweet.

Then Thursday night we rewatched a French film Amelie, by director Jean-Peirre Jeunet. Been a long time since we had watched, just a lovely sweet romance…in a very unique style by Jeunet. We have watched a good number of his films, so I think this will get us to rewatch a couple of them. Last night we watched Sinners, the new movie that has just come to streaming. Basically, about one night in deep south in the 1930s, as a couple of men come back to set up a juke joint (live playing, dancing, drinking.) Really powerful…but it also is horror…and left me very unsettled, so not really something I would necessarily recommend to you all unless you like horror.

Finally, today is usual Monday. Yoga first thing, cleaning, and after this post I will do my first walk before Rio comes to play.

Definitely seem to be into new round of blooms. I’m shifting to pink today!

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