Happy Easter! For our family celebration, I made a raspberry almond swirl cake. Inside is a layer of raspberry jam and homemade whipped cream.

Bert has been with us for four months now. I'd say he's settled in.

Went into the bathroom last night and was startled by this hanging right at eye level.

Bert Alert! #caturday

3:30 am poem

Like all writers, I am a sucker for pens and notebooks. So I got myself these lava pens as a treat. They smell pretty too!

Happy Women in Horror Month! I just posted an update on my author blog with a new nomination, a publication, a podcast, and horror titles. laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/2026/03/upda...

This week: citrus cake with orange glaze

The peach trees are starting to bloom.

It's Women in #Horror month. I thought I would share my horror titles: Screaming Intensifies, Our Miss Engel, and The Order of the Four Sons series. laurenscharhag.blogspot.com

Welcome to Lothlorien Poetry Journal. Our Blog has now had TWO MILLION VIEWS. Submissions Open. No reading or submission fees. lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com facebook.com/groups/23614... lulu.com/spotlight/st... lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/patrons-of... pic.x.com/2IpRnx2NLy

Rescuing Cats at the End of the World #poem

Apple cider cake. I made a caramel sauce to drizzle over the pieces when served.

Let yourself read those books. Maniac is gonna maniac whether you read or not, so you INDULGE in those books, babes And when you're re-charged from a good book (I recommend @laurenscharhag.bsky.social's West Side Girl), you get that phone out and tell your reps how you feel:

Not me over here trying to bake away my existential dread.

Happy Caturday from our tortie girls Hazel and Agatha!

I am very happy to share that my prose-poem, “Soulbirds and Firefoxes,” has been nominated for a Rhysling Award. Link to poem marrowmagazine.com/soulbirds-an...

This week's confection: chocolate chip pudding cake with chocolate glaze

#vss365 #lambent

#vss365 #ghost

Check out my latest poetry collection, A Food Court in Hell. a.co/d/0cc2rEiu

the soul is a background hum that we carry inside us and spend a lifetime trying to learn its music #vss365 #soul

there's a place between street lamps where moonbeams don't touch where shadows and mist mingle I want to live in this conjunction of absence and vapor because I am so much better at negative space at zagging when the world zigs at speaking in pauses #vss365 #shadow

Today's baking therapy: apricot thumbprint cookies

Thinking of Catherine O'Hara. Beetlejuice is one of my comfort watches so we'll be singing Day-O with her this evening.

And that's the last of the holiday baking supply stockpile.

Tonight's sunset

Reading submissions for Gleam and friends, this is gonna be a damn good issue.

I had leftover pie crust in the freezer after the holidays so tonight I baked a custard pie.

Meet the newest addition to our family! His name is Bert.

From my poetry reading tonight - thanks to everyone who came out! I am now sold out of my latest book.

My diet is very limited due to gastroparesis. I miss pizza so much, so hubby made me this tummy friendly pizza. It was delicious and he is the best. ❤️

An odd, foggy holiday; the mist feels like an omen, full of clammy foreboding, everything unmoored, like we’re drifting through halos around the moon.

I am delighted to share that my poem, "Little Brown Changeling," is a finalist for the DiBiase Poetry Contest. Big, big thanks to Bob Sharkey for this honor.

Christmas baking done! This year I did fudge brownie crinkles, jelly thumbprint cookies (strawberry and apricot) and oatmeal toffee chip.

My poem, “Bird Bones,” appears in Issue 2 of The Ivo Review. Many thanks to the editors for including my work. www.ivoreview.com/issues/issue...

I found the teddy bear Christmas tree at an antique store last year and was pleasantly surprised to find that it works!

The halls are decked!

Writing session interruptus. #cats

My latest publication news is up on my author blog. laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/2025/12/upda...

My infusion wore off the week of Thanksgiving and I have crashed hard, health-wise. But I get by with a little help from my friends.

Deeply honored to share that my prose-poem, "Soulbirds and Firefoxes," has been nominated for a Pushcart by Marrow Magazine. My thanks to the editors and congrats to my fellow nominees.

6 a.m. visitor

First snow of the season.

**Verrrry mild spoiler for Stranger Things** The last episode was called "Sorcerer," but they might as well have added "Or, How Will Byers Finally Got His Glow-Up."

But wait there's more!

Life with a baker. It's brutal I tell you.

I am the friend on Cthulhu Standard Time.

The minute the temperature drops below 60 I need an Abuelita, and you can't have an Abuelita without a concha. I don't make the rules.

I have 5 poems up today at @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social - The Midnight Paintings of Dr. Seuss, The Jumping-Off Place, That Time My Car Became a Swamp, Pompeii and Resurrection. Very grateful to Strider Marcus Jones for giving my work a home. lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/11/five...