Time enough…
Alma Alexander
November 22, 2023
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
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.
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Alma Alexander
October 25, 2023
When my father was dying from cancer, I would sit in the room where he was lying in his bed, on oxygen, with little interest
The Five Levels of Grief
Alma Alexander
October 25, 2023
Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash There are levels of looking into that void, the emptiness when you have lost somebody — something — that
The Naming of Cars
Alma Alexander
August 27, 2023
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
The Croning
Alma Alexander
July 26, 2023
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
The Nature of Grief
Alma Alexander
June 22, 2023
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
The Winnowing
Alma Alexander
May 24, 2023
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
A Cat Called Avalanche: what I learned
Alma Alexander
April 26, 2023
So living with a Maine Coon – for four months and change now – has been a learning experience… let me count a couple of
Adulting gets real
Alma Alexander
March 24, 2023
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
The January Read, 2023
Alma Alexander
January 25, 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
A Cat Called Avalanche
Alma Alexander
December 28, 2022
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
