Okay, here's an idea.

[avevale_intelligencer]

Lots of people have done the census thing, and I've enjoyed reading them.

So how about this?

March 2021: living in modest detached house on Devon coast with Countess and three or four cats. Employed part-time at a local bookshop, but income from books and albums helps to cover bills. Countess still enjoying benefits of miracle cure for diabetic complications discovered in 2017, and finding blood sugar much easier to keep under control when exercise isn't agony. Discussing twenty-volume collector's edition of Mershane Chronicles with publisher, and looking forward to Nycon 26.

If you like this idea, post your ten-years-hence either as a comment or in your own journal. Feel free to be as wishful or as brutally honest as you desire.

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

2021: Living in a snug, three-bedroom house in rural Vermont with cflute and our children. Grace is in her last year of high school, attending a local class for the gifted while she takes part-time college courses, and is on her way to a small college on the eastern seaboard where she's planning to study marine biology, just as she always said she wanted to do. Joseph's in his second year of high school, taking college level math and keeping himself in great physical shape because he wants to be an astronaut and he knows that means being both physically and mentally top of the line. He's taking flying lessons, wanting to get his pilot's license before he gets out of high school.

We've been married for seven years, after a lovely wedding that included all our friends singing to us. We don't get trouble from anywhere we travel in the United States anymore, about the wedding; even the places that don't yet let same-sex couples marry will acknowledge those made in other states. And most states allow it these days anyway.

I'm teaching eighth grade combined English and social studies in an experimental school for gifted students, that draws from all over Vermont and some from elsewhere in the US and the world; some kids are day students, some boarding. I get one group for three hours solid in the morning and one group for three hours in the afternoon. We learn what we, as a class, decide to learn, but we use our reading, writing and research skills on whatever topics interest us. cflute manages a department at a major teaching hospital in Burlington. We fly [Unknown site tag] in for a weekend every two months to rehearse for Tempered Glass, which has four successful albums out and gets invited every once in a while as GoHs to a filkcon. I've won one Pegasus award for a song I wrote. TG has won one for performing.

In addition, Grace, cflute and I perform together as a three-voiced harmony band, singing things I write and things Grace writes. She's been nominated for a couple of Pegasi also, and will probably win one before she gets much older; she's a better songwriter than I am.

cflute does a lot of cross-country skiing, given where we live, and is in great health because of it. I've been the beneficiary of a new medication for fibromyalgia which makes it all but go away for me as long as I keep exercising properly, and in order to accomplish that, I've acquired a lovely little blue-roan Appaloosa mare, whom I have to take care of every day and ride at least every couple of days (although when I'm busy, either Grace or Joseph are glad to ride her too). All that currying and brushing and riding keeps me in the kind of fit shape that my illness needs to stay at bay, and I hardly remember what it was like to be unable to get out of bed or spend most of my days in pain anymore. Grace, likewise, has outgrown her childhood pain disorder and is healthy and lively, often busy with her schoolwork or her friends but always still loving her family most of all, just as she did when she was a little girl.

cflute and I are starting to talk about what we intend to do after the kids are both in college and not living with us most of the time. While we both love our jobs and don't intend to retire anytime soon, we'd like to start traveling more. We have a long list of places we want to see, and between my school vacations and cflute's being so well respected in her job as to be able to take her vacations pretty much when she pleases, we can start considering how to knock some of those places we've always wanted to see off the list.