Tuesday, July 8, 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 1770:

Edgar and friends: Edgar, Miss Teeny, and Junior (he seems to move around behind the toilet) are all still hanging in there, in their respective corners of the downstairs bathroom.

Monday was quiet. I cleaned, did my two walks, had my late afternoon phone call, and actually got some writing on novella done. Today will be slightly different, and I doubt I will get much, if any writing, done.

Having gotten notice my new glasses had come in, I got my cleaning done and had a very early short walk, so I can be at the clinic when the vision department opens up by 8:30. I am keeping my fingers crosses the new frames work…seems the last couple years it took several trips (including, last time, sending the first set back since they didn’t work—too big and distorted prescription) then several visits to get the fit adjusted for the new frames.

I also have a phone call later this morning and will try to squeeze in my second walk, and then a friend is coming over to visit in the afternoon. For the next couple of days it is supposed to get into the high seventies (which usually means in our backyard with late afternoon sun—the eighties) so I hope it won’t be too uncomfortable sitting in the back yard. This is our idea of a heat wave!

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