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, including my struggles to maintain a balanced life, what I listen to, read, and watch for entertainment, and occasional bits of information I’ve gleaned from doing the research for my novels.
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Daily Diary, Day 1328:
Celebrations:
Making progress: I realized that the key thing I wanted to celebrate for this week is that I am making steady progress in both my health and novel, both reasons for celebration last Sunday as well. In addition, I am making great progress in decluttering the house in preparation for the beginning of the house remodel. My husband did the weeding out of his closet yesterday, I weeded out the downstairs powder room this morning. So all that is really left is the upstairs bathrooms, which I will do at the same time.
I think the key is that I am celebrating that I am going into this next week with renewed confidence 1) that I will continue to make progress editing and 2) that I have figured out how to give my body the necessary breaks so as not to reinjure anything, and t3) that next weekend when we move into the guest room to prepare for the workmen to start later in the week, this will be a smooth procedure.
Weather: It was really gorgeous weather this week, very sunny and spring like. There is a cooling trend in progress for this next week, but then warmer temperatures are returning the following week. Very nice variety. Even the ground cover plants are busting out with color.
New owners across the street. This is a bit bitter sweet for a celebration. The house right across the street from us successfully sold quite quickly so that the father can move up north to live with his youngest son. This is a good move all around, but the family moved there nearly 30 years ago, so lots of good memories and sad to see the last occupant to go. However, the new owners are a young couple with a 2 month old baby. So, looking forward to meeting them and watching that little boy grow up.
Firefly and Reservation Dogs: I really want to celebrate our enjoyment the past two weeks in rewatching these two shows. Sometimes when we rewatch something I realize it is has lost something over time, or there are some good episodes and so not so good episodes. That simply isn’t true for Firefly. I do mourn, like many people, that there was only one season before it was canceled—although this may mean it didn’t have a chance to go downhill. But we do own the movie, so will watch that when we are done with these last two episodes.
As for Reservation Dogs, this is the first time we are rewatching its 3 seasons. I loved it the first time, but now that we are rewatching it, I am loving it even more. Such a wonderful blend of humor and insight and sadness, anc because the first time around, particularly in the first season, I didn’t catch a lot of the nuances, my appreciation is even deeper.
While the main protagonists are the four young friends (and the departed friend that is the catalyst for the main plot lines), but there are also all these wonderful minor young characters and the adults…elders…in the community. It was these adults and their relationships with the young people and with each other (there is a lot of references to the past) that I am especially noticing this time around. This is definitely the kind of show that I suspect I will get more and more out of each time I rewatch it. Definite reason to celebrate.
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