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Morning Clipping

Today is for yoga, extra caffeine, and clipping Odd Trundles’s nails. The first is likely to be a bit painful, the second exceedingly enjoyable, and the third, well, that’s my cardio for the day. Odd is sixty-plus pounds of bulldog, and he hates his bath and nail-clippings with a passion. The bath he will submit […]

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Not In Good Faith

I’m slowly getting back to myself after the Snowpocalypse and Concomitant Freezing. Everyone in the house is fighting off another flulike bug, probably spread from the Princess’s workplace or the Prince’s school and grown virulent in confinement. So far I’ve been able to stave it off with sleep and exercise, but who knows how long […]

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Thursday, Like A Monday

It’s Thursday, but it feels like a Monday. In a good way, mind you. Because all the damn ice has melted off or washed away, which means I get to go running. Not only that, but Miss B gets to come with me, which means we’ll both work off a mountain of fidgets and irritability. […]

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Cabin Fever

We’re still snowed in, so telling the story of Who Shot At Willard and the Consequences Thereof has hit an unexpected snag. Everyone is inside, safe and relatively warm. They’re saying “ice storm”, though, and those are two words I never wanted to hear again. The dogs are both snarky and twitchy because it’s been […]

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A Certain Symmetry

I know some of you will look at this picture and go, “pfft, that’s not even two feet of snow, what’s the problem?” The problem, chickadees, is that even six inches of snow is like six feet here, because the PNW gets this kind of weather so rarely we don’t really have the infrastructure to […]

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Explaining Wendy

All right, so…I told you on Friday that I’d explain the koala in a corset. I’m going to have to take you back a fair while, to just after the Zombie Gnome Battle Royale. All the fuss caused Poor Batman to have one of his episodes, hanging on the outside of Fred & George’s house […]

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And So It Begins

I brought (almost) everyone inside. It really wasn’t the koala’s fault at all. …Let me back up. I should have known something was up, because Phil was nervous. No, he wasn’t upset–since the deck debacle, Emphysema Joe’s been really, really good about sharing the green no matter what philosophical differences arise. So Phil, quiet and […]

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Shiver Shiver

The first three chapters of Roadtrip Z are free over at my Patreon. If you like it, you can subscribe! It’s cold this morning, and so dry I’m considering bathing in jojoba oil or something just to keep the chapping and cracking down. We are damp, moss-loving creatures here in the Pacific Northwest, and El […]

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Eight-Ring Circus

Busy-bee morning, though it is freezing still outside and we won’t get above the temperature of ice for a few days. It was so cold this morning I rolled out of bed and into my running togs and the Jedi bathrobe, and I am pondering the advisability of wearing said bathrobe for a 5K. (I […]

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New Year, Burning Words

The long dark of January begins, a time for turning inward and heaving a sigh of relief at having survived. Several projects are burning a hole in me, aching to struggle free. First there’s Afterwar, which is digging up some very surprising ground. I’m not sure how to think about the fact that the antagonist–or […]

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