Sunday May 25, 2025: A Small Moment of Delight

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 1726:

Edgar and friends update: Sorry to say, no reappearance yet of Edgar or his daddy long legs friends. You will be the first to know if anything changes!

Meanwhile, since last week I kept looking in the bathroom to check to see what he and the other spiders were up to, one morning I caught a glimpse of the morning sunlight coming through the window in the front door and how it lit up the gem tree and cat I have sitting on the bathroom counter. That became my moment of delight!

Brief check-in: What a busy morning I had yesterday! I knew it was going to be, with scheduled zoom call and visit from niece and husband. The zoom call was fun, and it was great to visit with Kay and Steve (they are here dog-sitting for their daughter and son-in-law, who are back east for a wedding. I must say my great-niece’s generation seems to have been non-stop wedding for the past five or so years (I don’t know how they find the time or money) and now I guess there are baby showers starting to be on the calendar.

However, by afternoon I realized I was exceptionally tired, I think from the fact that between the zoom call and the visit, I had just engaged in over three and a half hours socializing. Now I do sometimes talk that much on a given day on the phone, but not back-to-back, and zoom and face-to-face visits seem to take more energy on my part. As a result, I had decided to have a very quiet afternoon. My first walk in the morning had only been 20 minutes—because needed to be back for zoom call—but I did do 40 minutes for my last walk, before dinner. And besides reading, that’s about all I did.

And of course, I took more photos of flowers for your edification.

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