Date Certain—What does it mean? Is anything certain anymore in our supposed post-pandemic world? I’d like to think so, and in some instances, I’m sure we can make a decent case for it, but more than ever, I’ve concluded that the Scottish poet Robert Burns was right about the “best laid schemes of mice and men”; they do “go oft awry.” I struggled through the years of pandemic isolation wishing I could make something useful of my sudden new time to write, finding that my creative energy had gone somewhere else to shore up my survival. But eventually nearing the end of the second year of isolation, I felt a nudge to continue with the construction of the third novel in my Emily Alden Trilogy. Continue Reading
