April 2026 Stats

In April 2026, I wrote 4052 words. Of those words,

520 were for this blog (1 short post),
449 were non-fiction essays
1101 were for my journal,
556 were for handouts, scripts, and slides for lessons (one for the Open Door Writing Group),
1277 were on various social media accounts,
471 were poetry (7 short poems),
and 121 were in a short story (1 piece of flash fiction).

There were seventeen days that I didn’t write anything. I spent April Fools day offline, as always, but this year with breakfast out with Ree, writing group shenanigans midday, and NTBMO family dinner for a nice ending to the day. I spent half a day at the car dealership with my youngest child as his Emotional Support Human while he bought his new car (he’s never bought from a dealership before and wanted some help with contract parsing).

My spouse and I went to DFW that Friday to do some paperwork for a new fun thing and visited the Mustang Museum and wandered the mini Riverwalk in Irving along the way. Saturday we sat around waiting for tornadoes all day, which kept my dad from being able to drive up for Easter, alas. Sunday dawned a bright, beautiful day. All three kids made it over for crepes (a combined Larson/Holcomb/DoUB tradition) and egg hunting and bunny business were done by some family members while others hid from the camera (*cough eldestchild cough*), though I did sneak a picture of my spouse later. I went to my second Poetry Society of Texas meeting on Zoom and that was nifty! I was inducted as Corresponding Secretary of Rusk County Poetry Society at their April meeting. Also that week, my youngest went off to the WGI World Championships and I watched it all from afar. Then I finally got my new prism lenses. They are so lightweight and yet manage to make everything regularly-3D again without the double vision I’d been experiencing. It’s going to take a little getting used to. So while I could start working on the computer and doing up close work again, it has taken longer than I’d hoped it would.

Fortunately, the birthday celebrations started – first my son’s, then mine with family, then mine with friends (a craft night!). And at the end of the month I led the Open Door Writing Group in playing word and story games. I was so very busy, I didn’t get any poems or short stories submitted anywhere. So, I didn’t get any poems or short stories submitted anywhere.

As for reading, I read parts of: