Nine weeks into the semester and onto my third essay. The first two, “Divorce Education” and “Addicted,” are off to various publication outlets. The third, “Fanning the Flame,” I’m re-working–with Liisa’s help–to under 5000 words and into a tighter, less technical piece. I’ll begin tackling the revisions Monday. Then there will be seven weeks left until my self-imposed deadline of mid-December. I have three more essays I want to get drafted and sent off:

• Making Space: The Southwest, Women’s Autobiography, and Topographies
• Colleague
• My Two Years as a Lesbian

Then I’ll throw everything I have together–including the rather outdated “Knitting into 21st Century America: Spiritual Connections”–into a collection called Unraveling.