This month, I wrote 25,341 words, mostly on the Hannah Project. I also wrote an essay for an upcoming anthology for the UUA, covering UU and people with disabilities, with an emphasis on my own personal experiences as a semi-disabled person in a small UU fellowship.
In addition to those things, I helped prepare for and run a local area writing conference and helped another local writer make decisions about cover art. I prepared and presented a lesson to the Open Door Writing Group about goal setting and how to reset your goals once you’ve gone off track.
In real life stuff, I had an MRI of my right foot, finally, and found out that despite it being my foot that hurts, it’s my spine that’s probably damaged. I traveled across the country with my middle son and my dad on the aforementioned Pilgrimage (also known as The Corn God Trip). I was sworn in as vice president of the board of my local UU Fellowship. I also finished crocheting a blanket that was meant for babies that turn five this fall. I also finished a cross-stitch pattern that I’d started in 2022 that had never mailed me the final pattern pieces. My children will talk about this summer in the future as the summer I watched a lot of murder mysteries in order to commit murders of my own devising. I also finished reading “Winter’s Orbit.”
Lisa Holcomb 