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
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.
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
The things we carry
Alma Alexander
November 28, 2022
I just saw this article on LitHub about the auction of the late Joan Didion’s personal objects and property – her shell collection, her eye
It’s over now, the music of the night…
Alma Alexander
October 25, 2022
Just the other day I noticed a news squib saying that “Phantom of the Opera”, the musical, is finally shuffling off into the shadows of
“And whose are you…?”
Alma Alexander
September 27, 2022
When I was a little girl running loose with my cousin in the dusty streets of the village where my grandparents had a house and
College of Sidekicks and Secondary Characters – Commencement Address
Alma Alexander
August 31, 2022
I wrote this a little while ago for a very specific purpose. But I just had a discussion with somebody about one of my “secondary”
The mysteries of nature – “it’s a small world, isn’t it?”
Alma Alexander
July 27, 2022
I was a little late to the party – I found mention of Peter Wohlleben’s “The Heartbeat of Trees”, published in German in 2019
And even if it all goes wrong…
Alma Alexander
June 29, 2022
Call me a late bloomer, or maybe just musically ignorant, but I came to Leonard Cohen very late in life. And indirectly, at that. The