Hi folks,
Just want everyone to know I'm still OK. Irene has begun raining and blowing but is not scheduled to hit full force until the morning. As in last post, I have supplies, etc. Had friends over for dinner and a silly movie. They have left to their place nearby. So, it's a little scary but realistically, unless something really weird happens, I should be perfectly safe.
However, the tornado watch is a bit unnerving...On the bright side, the chance of branches hitting a 10th floor apartment are fairly minimal. The only image I can conjure is of the Wicked Witch on her bicycle laughing at me about my little dog too! But I don't have a dog, so phew. My favorite (not) thing is the suggestion to stay away from rooms with windows, which in most apartments is almost impossible, like in this apartment unless I slept in the foyer. I'll take a risk and sleep in a bed.
So hard to know if to be afraid, in awe, excited or just read a good book. Probably I should be doing (d) read a good book rather than listening obsessively to various news shows as if that will help, like, anything, which of course it will not.
So, here's hoping I do that...meanwhile I'm going to evacuate my papers into the foyer, I guess, to give me the illusion of doing something helpful.
Oi.
Hoping after this that I can use the rainy-stay-inside day tomorrow to write. Composition books at the ready, so electricity outage cannot deter me. Only obsessive news listening (i.e., dumb ass illusion of control routine) can.
So, good luck everyone and wishing everyone safety, warmth and good stuff for this evening, especially on the East Coast, but of course everywhere else, too.
Welcome to my blog..
"We struggle with dream figures and our blows fall on living faces." Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I am now transitioning into being married again with a new surname (Barclay-Morton). John is transitioning from Canada to NYC and as of June 2014 has a green card. So transition continues, but now from sad to happy, from loss to love...from a sense of alienation to a sense of being at home in the world.
As of September 2013 I started teaching writing as an adjunct professor at Fordham University, which I have discovered I love with an almost irrational passion. While was blessed for the opportunity, after four years of being an adjunct, the lack of pay combined with heavy work load stopped working, so have transferred this teaching passion to private workshops in NYC and working with writers one on one, which I adore. I will die a happy person if I never have to grade an assignment ever again. As of 2018, I also started leading writing retreats to my beloved Orkney Islands. If you ever want two weeks that will restore your soul and give you time and space to write, get in touch. I am leading two retreats this year in July and September.
I worked full time on the book thanks to a successful crowd-funding campaign in May 2014 and completed it at two residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Wisdom House in summer 2015. I have done some revisions and am shopping it around to agents and publishers now, along with a new book recently completed.
I now work full-time as a freelance writer, writing workshop leader, coach, editor and writing retreat leader. Contact me if you are interested in any of these services.
Not sure when transition ends, if it ever does. As the saying goes, the only difference between a sad ending and a happy ending is where you stop rolling the film.
For professional information, publications, etc., go to my linked in profile and website for Barclay Morton Editorial & Design. My Twitter account is @wilhelminapitfa. You can find me on Facebook under my full name Julia Lee Barclay-Morton. More about my grandmothers' book: The Amazing True Imaginary Autobiography of Dick & Jani
In 2017, I launched a website Our Grandmothers, Our Selves, which has stories about many people's grandmothers. Please check it out. You can also contact me through that site.
In May, I directed my newest play, On the edge of/a cure, and have finally updated my publications list, which now includes an award-winning chapbook of my short-story White shoe lady, which you can find on the sidebar. I also have become a certified yoga instructor in the Kripalu lineage. What a year!
And FINALLY, I have created a website, which I hope you will visit, The Unadapted Ones. I will keep this blog site up, since it is a record of over 8 years of my life, but will eventually be blogging more at the website, so if you want to know what I am up to with my writing, teaching, retreats and so on, the site is the place to check (and to subscribe for updates). After eight years I realized, no, I'm never turning into One Thing. So The Unadapted Ones embraces the multiplicity that comprises whomever I am, which seems to always be shifting. That may in fact be reality for everyone, but will speak for myself here. So, do visit there and thanks for coming here, too. Glad to meet you on the journey...
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