I’ve been sick for three weeks. I can’t say that I’m happy about it. Now, it’s nothing life-threatening, like COVID (I tested. Twice.), or chicken pox (Eek!); it’s just a cold. And truly, it’s not even that bad. But it is sick, and that is something that I haven’t been in a while. Cue the... Continue Reading →
Little Wins
The day before Christmas Eve, I sent the Christmas Letter in to the printer, because that is the optimal time to get your Christmas Letters printed, practically ON Christmas. This is not conventional wisdom, I know, but almost there was no Christmas Letter, so sending it to print on December 23rd still seems like a... Continue Reading →
New and Improved!
Last week--or so... let's not get carried away with accuracy--I ventured to equip m'blog with a random post generator. Don't ask me why. Likely I was supposed to be doing something like cleaning out the couch, when the shiny prospect of Having a Fancy New Button caught my eye and entranced me with it's wiles.... Continue Reading →
The Rejection of Blog Awards
I promised myself back when I started this blog that I wouldn't do the whole blog award thing. Something too chain-mail-y about it; makes me uncomfortable. Complication is, someone nominated me for an award. Since I really have no idea how the universe might unravel if I ignore said nomination, or how it might implode... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Shotgun Lovesongs
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler My rating: 5 of 5 stars It took me years to read this book. Well, 17 days to read it, but years to begin reading it. It's been sitting there on the pages of Volume One for what seems to me like Ever, and I have, for mysterious reasons, scorned... Continue Reading →