author: Nicole J. LeBoeuf

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Niki's Latest Blog Posts

actually writing blog: flip-phone replacement, part the second and concluding
2024-02-20 22:50 MST

OK so it turns out that firstly, the NUU F4L does not by default save text messages to the SIM card. But that secondly, there is a setting by which you can tell it to. And also, thirdly, the long-press menu for every individual text message includes the . . . .


actually writing blog: toodling along in the low-tech slow lane, 4G and app-free
2024-02-13 22:13 MST

So several things have happened between last post and this one--most excitingly, a couple roller derby bouts; most disappointingly, an abject failure to keep to my morning routine--but today I want to talk about/document/gripe about my poor flip phone. Fl . . . .


actually writing blog: water finds its level and that's a good thing
2024-01-09 23:59 MST

Hello! Last week kind of puttered out and took the Thursday blog post with it, but I am feeling MUCH BETTER today. Despite today starting with a physical therapy appointment and ending with leading a roller derby practice, I got a LOT of writing and writin . . . .


actually writing blog: the chronicles of a not-quite-wasted non-writing day
2024-01-04 00:29 MST

By golly, there is going to be a blog post today. Problem is, being all out of the habit of regular blog posts, I'm also out of the habit of regularly coming up with stuff to blog about. And it's no good asking myself, "Why did I start keeping a blog in t . . . .


actually writing blog: ceci n'est pas une new year's resolution
2024-01-02 21:16 MST

Hello! Happy New Year! Happy new blog post! [Insert ritual self-deprecating quip about not having posted in seventh months, assume appropriate New Year's resolution as read.] Things I did in 2023: Had two new poems published in Eternal Haunted Summer: " . . . .


actually writing blog: in which the author catches us up all over again and mostly ignores the holiday
2023-07-04 19:09 MDT

Hello and happy 4th of July! No big plans at our household, just eating good food, being lazy, spoiling the bunny, and trying to tune out the random party noises from next door. Also the random explosions (fireworks) that, oddly enough, don't seem to bothe . . . .


actually writing blog: in which the author buries the lede
2023-05-02 23:32 MDT

Well, hi. So it turns out I have this blog. Let's brush the rust off the controls and do a round-up post of Stuff What I Been Up To Since January. In roller derby news, which I'll start with because that's always a thing, my league, Boulder County Roller . . . .


actually writing blog: in which the author takes a hard look at shitty company behavior and task list gamification
2023-01-19 23:55 MST

OK, so, this week's post is kind of a bummer. Also a bit of a reprise, since I posted about it Monday over on Patreon. Here's the thing: I'm leaving Habitica. I know! I've boosted it so many times over the years! It's helped me organize my life in so man . . . .


actually writing blog: in which the author looks back on 2022 and realizes she was not entirely unpublished therein
2023-01-11 23:21 MST

At least one post per week: Check. I have not been uniformly On The Ball since last post, but this much I can do. This week's post will be my "what I had published last year" roundup. It will be fairly short, because 2022 was not a great year for writing . . . .


actually writing blog: in which the author plots and schemes with good intent and high ambition
2023-01-03 23:52 MST

So, happy new year! I have res... um, goals. Goals and intentions. One of them is to blog here more regularly, which probably means shorter posts, each with only just one subject. It's the very long, complicated posts that make this daunting and also inapp . . . .

At left: An outdated photo of the author.

At right: Some of the author's recent thoughts.

Below: Some of the author's recently published works.

Email contact: "me" at [this domain]
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Recently Published

2023-06-20: "Fiat Nox" in Eternal Haunted Summer

Please enjoy the Summer Solstice 2023 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer, featuring my poem "Fiat Nox".

2022-07-02: "Reasonable Accommodations" in The Future Fire

Please enjoy Issue #62 of The Future Fire, featuring my poem "Reasonable Accommodations" (illustrated by Cécile Matthey).

"Reasonable Accommodations" was originally published in the Issue #2 of Departure Mirror Quarterly.

2022-06-20: "On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland" in Eternal Haunted Summer

Please enjoy the Summer Solstice 2022 issue of Eternal Haunted Summer, featuring my new poem, "On the Limitations of Photographic Evidence in Fairyland".