Why not just half an hour and be done with it?

I have an idea. Next time we have to move our clocks, why not just change them 30 minutes and be done with it. Split the difference and leave things well enough alone thereafter. At least the computer takes care of itself, but not the desk clocks, the wall clocks, stove clock, VCR, cell phone, car, alarm clocks…How much time do we waste saving time?

I’m 200 pages into reading my 358 page manuscript of Missing Persons. So far, no major changes. A few deleted sentences here and there, some minor rewording, a few typos. We’ll see what my agent says in a week or so after he makes his pass through it. I didn’t work on anything else. I am so ready to be done with this for the interim!

Currently reading: Candles Burning by Tabitha King and Michael McDowell. This was an unfinished manuscript left behind by McDowell when he died that was completed by King. I’m not far enough into it yet to see if I can detect where one author left off and the other picked up, and I don’t know if King rewrote the extant parts or not. I haven’t read much McDowell. I had his Blackwater series on my bookshelves for decades, but I don’t believe I ever read them. This is a quiet, southern Gothic novel. Probably a ghost story from what I’ve read, though there haven’t been any definite steps in that direction yet, and I’m 100 pages in. The narrator is tells a story from when she was a young girl, the year her father was murdered in New Orleans while they were attending a convention. The girl is the only female in living memory born to her father’s family, which makes her all kinds of an outcast. Her mother comes from a wealthy, influential family, her father from poor-as-dirt backwater folk. He made a fortune selling Fords in the 1950s, which made him a barely acceptable candidate for a husband. The way the main character (Callie, short for Calliope) is treated by everyone (her mother, brother, grandmother) makes her seem like a Cinderella character. Only her father made time for her, and now he’s gone. I’m just getting to the point where the story is turning a corner and things may look up for Callie, though I think strange days are ahead for her.