How to say hello again?

I follow Denise on Bluesky (which is less crappy than Twitter, but still full of awful news and depressing arguments), and her presence there reminds me: hey, DW is still going! The whole internet disappearing up its own butt with AI seemed like as good a reason as any to drop back in to Dreamwidth.

So hello! I'm old! I didn't see the aurora last week (not for want of trying). Still in my little house (q.v., below), still wondering how much of my sense of decline is age, how much the pandemic trauma, and how much the sequelae of the COVID I avoided for three and a half years before finally catching it last summer.

I'm working on a book. I don't know what it is yet--not even whether it's fiction or something else--but I'm cutting 100,000 words from the 144,000-word zero draft and trying to shape it into...something.

Are any fellow writers still here? What are you working on?

Search?

 Where are people going for online search now that Google has utterly succumbed to enshittification?