1/19/2025 0 Comments Clearing Fog![]() Let's get this year going! My energy has returned, post-cold. I was in a fog the first couple weeks of 2025. One day, there even was a thick fog blanketing all of the outdoors, matching my brain's interior malfunctioning. That has passed. One day I woke up, and it was like a reset button had been punched. What's on the agenda? This being January in Colorado, lots more miserably cold weather. Deceitful days where the sun shines boldly, but the temperatures are arctic. Gardeners will persist in planning for a spring we're optimistic will return, as it does every year. We'll soon be perusing seed catalogs, visiting gardening centers, and preparing trays for seedlings. Writing projects include a series my daughter and I are creating, with a hoped for release date in 2026. We've completed the YA, but need to think about how we want to pursue publication. I'm writing book 4 in the Rose Creek series, while waiting to hear the fate of book 3. The Body in the Cattails, book 1, is slated to be released in mass market paperback format by Harlequin this summer. I'm also trying to get back to short stories. Maybe shoot for writing two a year. I don't know how my husband's imminent retirement will affect my schedule. He has a long to-do list he placed on hold in anticipation of quitting the day job. We've pulled up our Bucket List. Or maybe it's more appropriate to call it a No Regrets list, of things we want to do, and places we want to visit, while good health and finances still allow. Our kids and grandkids want to plan camping trips with us. While I love to write fiction, I might have to ration out my time more carefully later in 2025. I plan to attend two writers' conferences this spring. Left Coast Crime is in Denver this year, so I have no excuse to skip it. And of course I'll be at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Sharing my completed book reads is a goal this year. Not necessarily as recommendations. I don't want to task myself with reviewing. Just to share what I've enjoyed reading. To keep myself going. I hope to stretch my reading tastes a bit. More history and biography. Some mainstream and literary crossovers. As well as cozy mysteries and my new interest, romantic suspense. Keep walking and running. The accursed cold knocked me off my fitness schedule, and I need to get back into routine. I have a treadmill, so the aforementioned bad weather is no excuse. At the same time, I want to pace myself. Take more moments to smell the flowers and notice the sunset. Time is precious. I want to be mindful about how I spend the minutes, hours, and days I'm given. How is your 2025 going? Have you experienced setbacks? I encourage you to take a moment to breathe. Clear your head. Hit your own reset button. Then dive back in with renewed energy.
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