Tuesday, June 24, 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 1756:

Edgar’s friends: Miss Teeny is still back in the corner near ceiling. I swear she’s getting smaller. Maybe when I thought she was growing it was because she’d just had a meal?

This post is a bit late because this morning I had an 8 am lab appointment to check my A1c, which is my blood sugar levels, and then I spent time finding new glasses frames. Always dicey. Almost all the frames where the lens were smaller enough were too wide (I have a small face), so I settled on a pair that are like the ones I have, but a little boxier, and keeping fingers crossed they work.

I did get to do the basic cleaning before I left, and as soon as I get this post written and up I will do my first walk. Shooting for 30 minutes now then 30 minutes before lunch. Yesterday I only got in 50 minutes total walking (plus yoga), and did some more work on novella, mostly editing, and the goal is to get some new words written today, since as of right now, no scheduled phone calls.

The weather has been partly sunny, but not too hot. Really pleasant. We finished rewatching the first series of Mystery Road last night, and quite liked it. Really didn’t remember much of the plot, including exactly who the villains were. We are still working our way through The Closer and Patience, and the New York Times is doing a top 100 list of best movies in the 21^st Century, that we are using to make a list to start watching. They are listing 20 at a time, and they were chosen by people in the “industry.” With the first 20, most of the ones that interested me were films we had seen, but not for years. The others…well there was a reason we hadn’t watched most of them when the first came out. (smile.)

Here is some more pink, only this time, just roses. Enjoy!

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