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The Way of All Steel

While walking Pepe the chihuahua this evening, we happened upon this tree that was in the process of growing around an old chain-link fence post. I noticed that it's also starting to grow over the wooden post on the right. That might take a while.

I should make sure to bring my digital camera with me when I walk around, but maybe it's not a necessity. My reliable Helio Drift cellphone with its 2-megapixel camera did the job, I think.

New Quaker Site, Blog Updated

The newquaker.com site has been updated and, well, surgically revised. I've decided to dissolve most of the original site and keep only the blog. Gone specifically are Selected Links and the Quaker Books for Friends newsletter pages. The "search" button on the navbar can be used to trawl for extant pages of the full site, but at some point even that will change. The main index page now redirects here, and I'm using "canonical links" in the code so as not to deceive search engines.

I need to consolidate my time, liberating me for more experimental writing and less site maintenance. I'll be placing more publications and works-in-progress onto merleharton.com. I'm keeping the blog to preserve this outlet for new writing and outrage. Really, that was the point of the site when I created it 1998 (as in ten years ago): the blog was added in 2002.

My new short-fiction collection, Twelve Stories from New Orleans, is forthcoming from De Signis Press. This project pulls together some of my older New Orleans fiction, some previously published in small presses, including a few naughty pieces I wrote during a time when I still thought in bawdy terms. The new book will be available for purchase in a few weeks.

Thanks to all for keeping up with me.