Every once in a while I have a week where everything seems to come together. This past week is that week for me. It started with a short trip to Amsterdam, then the Saturday Evening Post published my short story “No One Dies in Rochester,” and it ended with Bodies Full of Burning, the anthology I edited, going up for digital preorders.

What is this life?!!

Amsterdam was lovely. Fraught, of course, because we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, but after being all but trapped in my house for a year and a half with only my husband and cats to talk to, taking a solo trip was exactly what I needed. There was quite a bit of sitting canal-side and drinking beer, people-watching and reading.