Saturday March 1, 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 1641:
Well, the weather didn’t really turn until noon yesterday, reaching the peak of 74 degrees in our neighborhood, but 3 hours later it had dropped 10 degrees, and today it isn’t supposed to get above 60, with a slight chance of rain.
I did one walk yesterday, after getting back from the clinic, and a ten-minute ride on my new recumbent bike before lunch, but I also did more research in the newspapers. After lunch, I did the daily dust and sweep downstairs while my husband napped upstairs, then had my schedule phone call. The last two hours I did a mixture of plotting and doing final schedule for March posts, and that was about all I got accomplished.
Today will be very similar. I’ve done a more substantial weekend clean upstairs, and did a twenty-minute walk now before a scheduled zoom call. Then, a second walk before lunch, and I hope to spend much of the afternoon on research as well as more sketching out the plot.
Decades ago, a friend gave us some narcissus which we planted on a hillside, and every spring, despite complete neglect they come up again. The rain, then the warm weather, brought them up again and have them blooming. They won’t last long, but they are lovely while they are here.
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I love the narcissi’s, and if I remember correctly they have a lovely fragrance!
I had a purple hyacinth that came up every year for at least 15 years, with absolutely no care or even water. Bulbs are strong. I also had some chives recur (lovely purple flowers) and I finally ended them by letting them go through their whole cycle and pulling them out in one piece. Just delightful, the bulb was like a smoother garlic. Recommended.