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It’s Good to Get Out

My child and I are trying to walk more. We’re on Day Two of walking after I get home from work. Today we took the dog! He was very excited. And very not ready to come home, when we turned around, but we are working on child’s stamina, and I don’t want to push things until she decides she’s not having fun, or not up to the walk.

Doggo will be happy when we take him out again tomorrow.

I’m really glad to be walking with child; it gives us time to talk without pressure. We need that–we spend ...

January 2nd and All Is Well

My brain still hasn’t shown up for writing duty. Sometimes, I’m freaking out about it. Other times–while I am sad that my head is empty, I’m not really surprised. It’s because I haven’t been writing. When I don’t write, I don’t get more TO write. I know this! So I just need to make time to write, in all the other stuff, and all will be well.

yup. Surely. all will be well. It’s gonna be great.

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— Swear Trek (@swear_trek) December 21, 2022

Child and I have been ...

Blogging Ever Onwards

My first blog post was almost twenty years ago. I didn’t remember that on my own; I was just wandering around my site for the first time in way too long, and noticed.

I used to blog every day. I’m not sure why that changed. Is it a change in me, or a broken habit I could get back? Who knows? Trying to blog more has (so far) not gone well.

Well, whatever. I’m here today. Will I be here tomorrow? We’ll see. I mean to try.

Please accept this kitty as a token of my appreciation.

The post...

Check Out Hallowed Hill!

Kit Campbell, Turtleducker, is awesome. And she has a new book coming out! The rest of TDP is pretty excited about it. Because she’s awesome. (I was supposed to post this a week ago. Sorry, Kit! I grovel in your amazing presence.)

Maybe you should look a gift horse in the mouth.

After the sudden loss of her parents, 16-year-old Martie Torsney receives a surprise scholarship from a prestigious boarding school. This is the opportunity she needs to leave the heartbreak and echoes of her pare...

Allergy Pills at Dawn!

Okay, that makes it sound like a duel, and it’s not. Quite.

It will not astonish my regular readers, if such still exist, that I’m not much of a housekeeper. It doesn’t bother me much– we keep it clean enough to be comfortable, we don’t invite people over, it’s all good.

But we’re going away, the roomie and I. For a month. Leaving the adult-aged child at home. Alone. With no one to remind her to take her meds or bring all the dirty dishes out of her room.

This may not end well.

Curre...

Happy Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day!

I had no idea it was Take Your Houseplant For a Walk Day today, but coincidentally, I gave some cuttings to a number of coworkers, so they *did* take their plants for a walk!

I did not take this plant for a walk.

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Wherein KD Babbles About the Refrigerator and Stuff

So tonight my plan was to make overnight oatmeal for the week because I hadn’t yet, and make some mason jar salads. Along the way I wanted to clean out the refrigerator, since things had got a little backed up with all my unused salad fixings crammed in there.

Okay, so…I figured I’d start with the oatmeal, since that was the most important thing. If I can start my day right, it has a chance of staying on that course, right? Right.

Five half-pint mason jars (four, and a pint, becaause I cou...

Easing Back In

Sorry. I’m just having a tough time. Please accept this easy post so I can get past the fact I haven’t posted in almost three months.

Desert willow flowers!

This is the tree we planted a few years back! I’m so excited it has flowers. (It won’t be much of a tree, really. They tend towards shrubbery. But anyway! Flowers! Hummingbirds love these flowers, I’m told.)

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Stuck in Traffic

You know when you’re on the road and you’re stuck behind that big truck/RV/whatever that just won’t move, and you can’t see around it and you don’t know why you’re stuck but there’s nowhere to go?

I’ve been stuck like that lately. In my writing, but also it blocked seemingly everything else. I needed to write THING, I’m on a deadline, and I…did not write THING. But since I knew I needed to write THING and I was running out of time, I did not do lots of other things eithr. Take care of that er...

Struggling Ever Onwards–Again. Still.

The other day I was pondering (probably to avoid working on something, like how I’m posting this now to avoid something I’m supposed to be doing.) Am I struggling more these past few years, or am I just more aware of the struggle? I have all these goals, which I’m not sure have led to any progress at all…but then, I’ve been known to sleepwalk through years of my life…

So about– gosh, I don’t know, has it been a year? Has it been longer? Since I started with my goals in my flight manual. I sup...