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Be Like Odd Trundles

Odd Trundles knows it’s been a long week. He knows Mum is upset, and when Mum is upset, the best thing to do is put his face on her ankles at every opportunity. He wants to reassure Mum that he loves her, and that he stands ready to schnorgle. This is a hard job. Trundles […]

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Inconvenience Bigotry

So. The popular vote elected our first woman president, but the electoral college will hand it to a racist orange malignant narcissist and his super-evil twopence piece who will, God help us, probably be doing the actual governing. Hatred has reaped a rich harvest. I am hoping its sowing methods are not sustainable and the […]

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Be Gentle

It’s Tuesday, the entire country is in a ferment, so I’m not for-real blogging until Thursday. Be gentle with yourselves today, dear Readers. It’s been a stressful year.

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Weekend Past

Odd Trundles ate breakfast–not out of his bowl, alas. No, he ate from Miss B’s bowl. The two of them have a ritual most mornings, and it involves sitting in their accustomed places while I place the bowls, sniffing at their breakfasts, then switching bowls and gobbling the other dog’s (exactly the same) ration of […]

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Punkin Games

“No, Mum,” they initially said. “We’re too old for punkin-carving this year.” Then the Princess found out she had the Great Day off work, and the Prince found out the Princess had decided to carve one because she would be home, and the Princess furthermore let me know she LOVES the way I roast punkin […]

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Not Too Wild-Eyed

That moment, after a super intense period of stress, where your body takes revenge for the emotions, whatever repression you’ve done to manage the worst of them, and the nail-biting anxiety? That’s where I am. The Princess brought home a cold from work, and I put off getting sick until the gauntlet was finally run. […]

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Joy in Candy

I was going to write a long post about this past weekend, but…no. I just can’t. Instead I will wish you a happy Samhain, a fruitful New Year, and much joy in candy and delight tonight. Thank God I have the kids and the dogs to keep me busy. I don’t want to brood tonight. […]

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Holly

How blood-red is the berry, against the holly’s mantle. A tree that bleeds on its own spikes. I never liked hollies, but I’m growing to understand them more nowadays.

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Electronic Mishaps

So, after having to restart my desktop three times this morning, I think everything is all right. What was the problem? Who the hell knows, really. I can tell you I’m holding a chunk of bloodstone in my lap while I type, just in case it’s me. For years, when stress hits, electronics around me […]

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A Path to Hope Again

So, 67K into Harmony, I understand that what the book needs is for me to rip out a lot of the unnecessary byroads and tighten up the timeline. This book has been an education in writing around the problem and finding out what the whole damn thing is about eighty percent of the way through, […]

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