Author : Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander is a novelist, anthologist and short story writer who currently shares her life between the Pacific Northwest of the USA (where she lives with her husband and two cats) and the wonderful fantasy worlds of her own imagination. Born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, she has lived and worked in seven countries on four continents (and in cyberspace!), and the story of her life so far has included climbing mountains, diving in coral reefs, flying small planes, swimming with dolphins, touching two-thousand-year-old tiles in a gate out of Babylon.

Time enough…

oh lord, it’s time to go running around changing all the clocks again. Look some people are afraid of the dark. I get it. That

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The Five Levels of Grief

Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash There are levels of looking into that void, the emptiness when you have lost somebody — something — that

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Re-pair…

  A friend recently and relatively artlessly started talking to me about this OTHER firend that she has – he’s in his early seventies, he’s

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The Naming of Cars

Look, I name EVERYTHING. OK?I have nicknames for gadgets in the house, all the time. I’m in line with the “Naming of Cats” thing from

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The Croning

So, I just has a birthday. A big on the big six-oh. It may or may not have been an official gateway to Cronehood but

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The Nature of Grief

You can have many kinds of grief. You can grieve the loss of a job, a dream, even things (accidentally dropping and smashing a favourite

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The Winnowing

To telescope a harrowing couple of months into a couple of sentences,my mom was on hospice for kidney disease (and she kept ON being on

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Adulting gets real

So, my mom. Widowed almost ten years ago, with my dad having been the outside-facing part of that marriage – my mother is almost a

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Identity

I found something on FB the other day and reposted it for responses on my own wall – Couple of reasons why I tthrew that

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The January Read, 2023

You may remember me writing about last year’s read and the tradition that led to that – but this year there it was, another Walt

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A Cat Called Avalanche

So I’ve been besotted by Maine Coons since the first time I laid eyes on one, okay? I mean, please don’t take this the wrong

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