Well, it's been over a year since my last update to this blog. Wow, a lot has happened since September 2014.

Not long after moving to campus housing at seminary, I truly fell in love with the person I'd been dating, Anne. I moved in with her before then end of the Fall 2014 semester. We were married on Valentine's Day 2015, at PantheaCon. It was also that night that my new wife received her first degree initiation in the Circle of Cerridwen (Open Source Alexandrian Tradition of Wicca) and I received my third degree and ordination as a high priest and teacher of the Tradition. How does that tie into writing (this is Goodreads, after all)? Well, I have a blog devoted to my ministry.

Anne became critically ill at the start of November 2015, and as a result my focus shifted from being a seminarian to being on the hunt for a job that would allow me to provide for our family. I'll be taking a leave of absence from seminary for next semester, too, hopefully returning in Fall 2016. The job search conintues, but hasn't yielded much yet. (If any of you know of any possible tech/customer service/adminstrative assistant jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, here's my LinkedIn profile. If you are able and willing, please either contribute to our GoFundMe or please share the link.) I've had some temp jobs, and our friends are really coming through for us. But I need a new full-time job.

The upside to not currently working on my seminary studies is that I have more time to write. The follow-up novel to Waking for Hours|17085043 is still in progress, though I hope to have the third draft done by the end of the year. I think I'll need at least one more draft after that, but we'll see.

I'll try to be better about updating this blog in 2016. In the meantime, happy reading and writing!