Trying hard to set good new habits up for the summer writing time. It’s so easy for summer to drift away in an unstructured way, and then it’s August and the semester’s starting and you’re filled with bitterness and despair at having wasted a summer.
Let’s avoid that, yes?
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I have a few goals:
• get the garden recovered from the years of pandemic neglect (getting there — another few weeks of work), ideally before Kavi’s party
• get the house clean and organized (very close — maybe a week or two more of work), ideally before Kavi’s party
• exercise daily (yesterday was lifting was Liz; today, probably swimming with Roshani, and I’m thinking I might try to find a dance class to go to….I need to vary things up to keep from being bored and stopping)
• clear inbox (I have something like 1300 e-mails stacked up at the moment, gah; it’ll probably take most of the summer to clear them)
• write. I’m not sure what, exactly — I have tentative goals of a story / month, and maybe a food essay / month?
• submit. I have multiple books that are done, and have to get out the door to seek their place in the world. Time to stop futzing with them and let them go. Fly, little birds…
• get caught up on all my family’s health appointments — physical health, mental health, dental health.
• socialize with friends and family
• rest.
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Okay. Setting intentions. Not the most exciting post, sorry, but it does seem to help me! At least you get a vibrant pic of snapdragons too. 
Next steps for today:
– put away laundry before house cleaners arrive
– put on shoes and take laptop to the shed
– do at least 30 minutes of gardening
– work on cocktail mini cookbook, ask Stephanie Bailey to set up pre-order page, and think about what Serendib Press should be doing next
– answer all the queries for having me go do library talks
– answer at least ten more e-mails
– look at Liminal Space and decide whether to add scene at beginning to match screenplay sequence
– submit Liminal Space to agent(s)
Here we go.