I owe readers and clients an explanation, but I really struggle with where to draw the line on TMI sometimes. Er, a lot. Even people who are really into vicarious drama would probably find the entire years-long saga to be way too long and convoluted. So I might go into more detail later, but for the time being, here are the bare bones:
I recently got out of a really bad situation, one that’s been going on for years and that affected pretty much every aspect of my life. After 6+ months of failed efforts, I realized that the only way I could get this person away from me was if the police took them away in handcuffs. So getting out of this situation involved, among other things, sneaking off the property and hiking a couple of miles through the woods and up the train tracks to meet a deputy at a gas station so I could file a police report.
I’ve been dealing with coercive control, financial exploitation, assault, theft, repeated sabotage of my vehicle, threats on my life, and destruction of my property. I’ve been to court a few times and I’ll have to go to court a few more.
My life is still kind of trashed. I’m just putting one foot in front of the other right now and focusing on the immediate future, taking one day at a time.
I’ve been behind on absolutely everything for a long time. It’s pretty overwhelming, but I am working on getting a handle on the chaos and getting caught up. It’s not going to happen overnight, but I have absolutely no intention of walking away or screwing over my clients and customers. (I might shift some gears in the future in terms of what I spend the bulk of my time on, and I might even go walkabout for a while, but it won’t be before I get caught up – I’m not gonna take off leaving anything hanging.)
I have two big bins full of packages that are ready to ship as soon as I have the funds to buy shipping labels.
I have to give public props to Sonia, who’s been my lifeline. Whatever *hasn’t* fallen into complete disarray has been because of her. She deserves every good thing and I’m going to be trying to make it up to her for a really long time.
Blog Address/Domain
In all the “excitement,” I lost ownership of the bigluckyhoodoo.com domain, and I can’t afford to get it back. But the blog still exists at bigluckyhoodoo.wordpress.com.
Writing Projects
I just published the Smilax – Greenbriar – Sarsaparilla draft article for the Bayou Hoodoo Herbal, and I decided to wait to password protect the page so that everyone, not just supporters/members, can get a sneak peek at it. It contains some herblore that, to the best of my knowledge, has never been published in English before, and I went down some research rabbit holes to run some of this info down.
The Bayou Hoodoo Herbal draft articles live at their dedicated blog. Announcements and news about my writing projects are posted to my Ko-fi page, which is also where you can support my work on these projects if you feel so inclined. I’ve got a new serialized project, Apocalypse Grimoire, and the first issue will be released soon. It’s available for preorder now.
I appreciate y’all so much and am really grateful for your patience. I’m working overtime to avoid taxing it further and to demonstrate how much I love y’all.