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Refuge In Any Place

I’m back! This past week was upsetting. Someone I love very much is in hospice care. Supporting others and struggling to remember to bathe, eat, and get out of bed has been eating up most of my emotional reserves this week. More rambles in the wet woods are called for. Just to get out of […]

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Snowberry Caution

Despite what Wikipedia says, if you see white berries in the Pacific NW, don’t eat them. It’s just better to be safe.

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Trundles, Cranky

Poor Trundles. There was not enough bacon grease in his breakfast bowl this morning (a mere dollop! how could I be so cruel!) and for some reason, the pillows on my bed, heretofore perfectly adequate for the fort he builds himself daily for his morning naps, was not to his liking. Consequently, after a great […]

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No Patience for Anything

Well, it’s Monday, and the world is wrapped in mist. It looks like a Stephen King story out there–the wrong season for Strawberry Spring, but very close to The Mist. There doesn’t seem to be any tentacles lurking in it, but if there are, I am antsy enough to put on a burst of speed […]

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Good Neighbours

When our neighbours go on trips, one of my kids takes care of their cats. And generally, I drive them to the airport and pick them up when they come back. They keep telling me “when you travel, we’ll do the same for you”, but the thing is, I don’t travel. I hate flying, I […]

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Tired, Cranky, Sore

The cold is fighting for supremacy inside my body; my immune system is hunting it down and just barely managing to stay on top. Consequently I’m tired, bloody cranky, and sore all over. I could only get four and a half running miles in yesterday, which irritated the life out of me. Even the returning […]

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On Themes, and Horror

I may actually have to turn the heat on in some point. I love living in a temperate zone where I don’t have a lot of heating or cooling costs, but when my toes get numb even in socks it’s time for the indoors climate adjustment. Work on Harmony has taken a strange turn. I’ve […]

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More Than I’m Doing

It’s that time of year again–the time when I get a deluge of letters from people who have school projects due, and want to put me in those projects in some way. I feel kind of bad that I can’t answer each one fully, but if I did, I would have no time to write […]

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Cheeto Trundles

It wasn’t until I took the rubbish out that I noticed the box on the doorstep. It was addressed to Odd Trundles, and my first thought was that he’d stolen someone’s credit card by deploying maximum cuteness and somehow learned to navigate the wilds of online shopping to boot. When I opened the package–I did […]

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Unsettled Luck

Humming power in the wind today, a great deal of unsettled, floating energy. The shift gathers pace, even afternoon heat stopping at the edge of the shade and turning brisk. There’s no rain on the wind just yet, but it’s only a matter of time. This morning I stumbled in the kitchen and almost poured […]

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