November 2024 Recap and What To Expect The Rest of This Year

Essay collections, a guest post, a visual/sound interview, and more ...

I woke up earlier this week and didn’t want coffee, which is always a sure sign that I am sick. I got a cold and it was nasty and I canceled all plans for the week and I’ve been sleeping and hydrating and sleeping and taking cold medicine and sleeping. And I’ve also been thinking here and there about all of the things I hope to do/see/create/be a part of in 2025. But first, we need to wrap up 2024. So, here’s the recap of what happened on Create Me Free in November 2024.

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November has been a pretty slow month around here although a lot of work has gone into it. I’m trying to clean up all of my old essays and create collections of them so that I can have a concise Table of Contents here where you can go find the things you might want to read. So, I’ve shared a lot of those collections. To create them, I go through each essay in the collection and remove paywalls, update images, remove some of the outdated wording that doesn’t suit my goals today, consolidate certain things, etc etc etc.

It’s still a work in progress. I particularly need to go through all of the amazing interviews here, which I’ll be doing in December. But you can see the new Table of Contents work in progress beginning to shape up.

In December, you can expect:

A few more of these essay collections. A few visual art shares. And a lot of spaciousness. I have reworked a bunch of stuff for 2025 but for December it’s rest, spending time with family, being still.

What you saw here in November:

November Essay Collections

And Other Things

Gratitude this month to

April Lorenzi

for her guest post and

Jo Taylor

for her visual/sound interview.

November Threads: Connection and Updates From the Threadstack Community

Neurokind Issue #3

A found poetry piece of mine was featured in this collection of art and writing from neurodiverse creatives. So many inspiring pieces in here.

In My Fluffy Pajamas: Ferry Building

Meanwhile, Over in Notes

From my life and mind and things I’m reading, I shared:

I was moved to share with others these things from

Jenna Nicole Stevens

,

Holly A Brown

,

Paris Collage Collective

,

Madelleine Müller (she/her)

,

Kate Speer

,

Natalie Eslick

,

Ash Ambirge

,

Rebecca Wisent

,

Clare Egan

,

Jane Ratcliffe

,

Charlene Storey

,

Katy Hessel

,

Girls on the Page

,

Tuğba Avci

,

Lia Pas

,

Sue Clancy

, and

Candace Rose Rardon

Gratitude to others for conversing and sharing!

Thanks

James Hart

,

Jen Phillips April

,

Caroline Osella

,

Story Carrier

,

Marbellys

and

Wendi Gordon

Thank you for being here. I treasure you.