A writer, if they're lucky, doesn't know what time it is. A writer, if they're lucky, doesn't know which day of the week it is. Hours, days, weeks, months, are nothing more than Now… and Now is anytime. It's any place the work is.

I studied in the Great Library of Alexandria as Mary Magdalene. And when I was done filling my head with the knowledge of the world, I walked the land of what Rome called Palestine with Jesus as his Beloved Companion and teacher over the course of years unspecified, because unknown… as I worked on The Secret Magdalene. I was born during the last part of the fourth century to Alexandria's leading mathematician breathing the air of of Egypt as Hypatia . In my time, I was exalted beyond all women and most men, and then, still young, still fair, still revered by so many, I was cruelly brought down by a few in a way hard to comprehend. And when that was done, the world tried to forget me. I was pampered and rich and foolish in the city of San Francisco. It was the Roaring Twenties and I fell in love with a man I destroyed in China Blues. I was a woman unnamed, a woman who destroyed herself… perhaps, in a haunted hotel in Vermont. Or was it haunted? As I wrote Houdini Heart, I did not plan or plot or scheme. The work simply came with barely a change of word when it was finished. I don't know if my hotel was haunted. I don't know if everything is haunted, but I suspect it is.

Over my own years, the years I live as Ki, these things come to me. They are almost easy now. But only because I prepared for their coming. I learned how to write by reading. I learned how to write by writing. I took no course. I followed no rules but those that seemed mine. They were never mine. Story telling is ancient and all who listen know when a story is right and when it is wrong. They did not get taught this. Humans are born to tell stories or to hear them.

If the life you live seems pale to you, uneventful, unimportant, all that can change with a word. Even better, with thousands of words. Read them or write them. Better, do both. And you too will forget what time it is and your life will seemingly last forever.