Random Musings

Category: writing

  • Traveling in Silence

    (I just deleted a whole bunch of bleak stuff so I can get to the heart of things. Yay!) We decided to travel. For two people who do it often that shouldn’t be a big deal, but obviously, with all the stuff going on, it really was. One of us…

  • Call To Me by Helena Harte — Les Rêveur

    Sometimes the ideal book falls into your lap at the perfect time and that’s what happened with Call To Me. This book totally gave me the feels!! What was the book about?Ash is ready to start the next chapter of her life. Fresh out of university she’s prepared to get…

  • Speaking of writing…

    Here are some thoughts on the absolute messiness of it all, by my author persona. https://breywillows.com/2020/08/04/slapped-with-a-muddy-word-rag/

  • Utterly Random Things

    I feel the need to put something down but there’s nothing really coherent in my head. So here is a random list of brief thoughts and such. Just because. And, a question for you. You know what’s weird? Autumn leaves on the trees in the back yard. In July. But…

  • Call for submissions for new anthology

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color WritersStory selection by Anne ShadeEdited by Victoria VillaseñorPublisher: Bold Strokes BooksPublication Date: Spring 2021As an LGBTQ+ publisher, Bold Strokes Books strives to ensure that our list of publications represents the cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of…

  • Mr Rogers, Basketball, and Giant Teddy Bears

    It’s July. Half the year is gone and it seems like we’ve been in a weird stasis mode for most of it. We got away last week, exchanging our four walls for different walls and so we could get a break. And while there we watched two movies that made…

  • Down the snake hole I go

    “When you were a kid I was always worried you’d fall down the rabbit hole, like Alice. Well, maybe not a rabbit hole, it was the desert. Maybe a snake hole. Which would have been a very different experience. But very you.” My mom asked me something today. Kind of.…

  • Back on the horse, now or never

    I’ve been away for a while. Did you miss me? No, I’m sure you didn’t. Because you’re off living your life, staying indoors, wearing a mask when you go out, doom scrolling through the internet, eating too much of everything…and so on. But I have been away. After I got…

  • I still hate cauliflower.

    I’ve wanted to write something since the event ended but I haven’t been able to create coherent thoughts. So I think I’ll do a list, as an old friend taught me to do when the words aren’t flowing. Community is good. A community of old friends is even better. People…

  • The big event is this weekend

    If you know me, you know I’m super awkward and I sweat a lot when I’m around big groups of people. Not super-sexy, for sure. But this year, that may be different. Because the 11th Annual Bold Strokes Book Festival (this year refered to as a Bookathon), is virtual. I…