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Promo Post Tomorrow

Yesterday I had a heck of a time working and couldn’t finish the chapters for Chapter House.
I was pretty mad at myself.

This morning, I woke up with a sore throat/fever/ general feeling like crud. Still working on chapters. Will do promo tomorrow.

I’m so sorry, both to chapter-house subscribers and my readers here. Sometimes the body has a say.

Saturday Meme Saturday

DON’T BUDWEISER MY BLOG. I REMOVED THE SECOND INSTANCE OF DYLAN MULVANEY.

Shut Up And Push!!

When I went in to give birth to second son, we were — son and I — put in a dangerous situation because the doctor was misinformed, and therefore misdiagnosed the moment.

To make it clear, I don’t blame the doctor — not exactly — since we were the idiots who gave him access to the report of our first son’s birth. That said, he should have been able — I think — to read between the lines and figure out that the first doctor was covering her ass. Because unless that woman was much better at w...

BLog Funding, Day 15 of 15

Whew! It’s the last day of rattling the can, at least for now. All together it probably comes to around 25k. I won’t lie and say I didn’t hope for more because that would be stupid. Of course I was hoping to fully fund. However, the methods of donation plus a couple of other ways to donate will now be on the website and once every three months or so I can remind people of them at the bottom of posts. You know, in case one of you wins the lottery.

And I’m convinced Chapter House will gain ...

High Flung Dreams

I was thinking of Phantom’s post yesterday, and it occurred to me it never fails: when people create big, overarching dreams, they fail to take in account some small detail of mundane reality.

Usually too, what they purport to “solve” either is a problem that doesn’t exist, or one that was already being solved when they stomped in to impose their shiny idea.

Socialism-Communism, Environmentalism, Centralized Public Education and probably a million others “grand unified solutions” are u...

Post Later

And chapters of Witch’s Daughter also later, on Chapter House.
I need to go get dressed now, because today is “Fun with doctors.” (sigh.) Again. For both of us this time, because why not.

Meanwhile, an important PSA: Those who contributed to blog last year: we’re sending things out and we have confirmation it is sending and arriving. What we just sent out was the Moose and Squirrel MP3. If you donated enough to qualify for that, look in your junk mail (sometimes it ends up there, from t...

Blog Funding, day 14 of 15

Yes, I am aware Day By Day pushed my fundraiser, and I’m extremely grateful to Chris Muir!

In very short: I’m doing the blog fundraiser, not because it’s an emergency (yeah, we could use it, like who couldn’t these days, but it’s not an emergency) but because I do the work, and I want to get paid.

The total at Give Send Go is the desired total for everything. No, it’s not going particularly well this year, but a bit always trickles in through other means. Oh, and we’re starting (if t...

Bearings make the world go round by The Phantom

Bearings make the world go round by The Phantom

It occurred in a blog post at Small Dead Animals regarding windmills and why so many of them seem to be broken, that people generally don’t understand how basic machinery works.

Dead windmill in PEI. See that brown crap on there? We’re going to talk about that later.

This is entirely expected. Education, in my Boomer generation and ever since, does not talk about machinery. At all. I believe this to be part of the hidden class-warfare ...

Blog Funding Days, Day 13 of 15

THE DAILY POST IS BELOW!

Hi!

My name is Sarah A. Hoyt and I run this blog, in addition to writing novels, cleaning the house, managing to keep the mathematician in touch (eh!) with reality, writing the occasional short story, attempting to manage my publicity and publishing. I’m tired. very. And frankly there are — right now — weeds in my front flower beds that are taller than my sons. (Who are both over six feet.)

The main reason to run this fundraiser is that I write this blog and...

Buying The Narrative

It has been many years since any of us bought the narrative: literally or figuratively. Though I’ll point out that I spent ten minutes, this morning trying to figure out if I should subscribe to the local newspaper — in paper.

Why, in heaven’s name? you ask? Well, because I’ve found it’s easier to clean the quail housing — the trays underneath at least — if I line them with newsprint. And for a hot minute there, it looked like the newsprint would be cheaper from the local rag, with print...