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...

Preparing books to mail! I absolutely will stand in the middle of the post office all FLY MY PRETTIES!

Gleam is open for submissions through Dec. 31. Cadralor poems only. gleampoets.org/submit/

My new poetry collection, A Food Court in Hell, is here! a.co/d/acOkZyx #poetry #booksky #books #newrelease

Thrilled to share that my prose-poem, “Soulbirds and Firefoxes,” received an Honorable Mention in Marrow’s Halloween poetry contest. Thank you to the judges, and congrats to the winners! marrowmagazine.com/soulbirds-an...

A few years ago I was a Poe boy for Halloween - my favorite costume ever.

I made chocolate dipped macaroons!

Happy Caturday from these contestants of the sheet game!

Update on my author blog - news about my forthcoming collection and my latest publications. laurenscharhag.blogspot.com/2025/10/upda...

I am pleased to share my prose-poem, “The Turner Doomsday Video,” is in the 2025 Central Texas Writers Anthology: Beyond Gods and Religion. It's now available as an ebook or in paperback. My poem is a long one, so this is just an excerpt. a.co/d/dSzj2E8

It's almost Halloween! If you love #horror, check out these books. Excerpts and links to purchase on my blog. www.laurenscharhag.blogspot.com

Dash wants to know who this imposter is. #cats

When we were leaving the trail area, we found we had a stowaway - this little gray tree frog was in the trunk. #outdoors #nature #frog

More trail treasures. #trail #nature #outdoors #fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms

Trail treasures from today's hike. #trail #hike #nature #fungifriends #fungi #mushrooms #shroomscrolling

Doing an X-Files rewatch for spooky season. Gonna start telling people that this is Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn.

It's a lovely 68 degrees here so I took a walk around the cemetery. #outdoors #trees

I have Halloween decorating underway. See this? This is why all decorative items must be durable. #caturday