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Year: 2017

Friends

Schedules and happenstance mean I’ve gotten to spend some quality time with old friends in the past two weeks. First up was a visit from my exchange sister from Germany last weekend. I hadn’t seen her in ten years. It was good to catch up, and strange to discover new parallels in our lives. This…

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Keep People

I missed a week of blogging, I know, but fun with Gayla also meant exhaustion once I returned home. Plus, I’d missed hubs and our puppers, so dinner together, our walk, and sleeping were more important than blogging last week. What made last week so fun wasn’t just that I got to catch up with Gayla,…

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Anonymous Woman

In general, I’m not a fan of commercialized holidays like Halloween, the day after Thanksgiving, or Christmas. This year, though, Halloween was heralded by Netflix releasing the second season of Stranger Things. I’m actually not a big fan of horror, either, but this story is compelling to me for a lot of reasons–not the least…

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Dire Need

Allergy season struck with a vengeance last week. Tonight, I’m listening to the wind howl through the trees outside my window and am wondering if I’ll “breathe loud and proud” (as hubs described it one morning after listening to my night of snorting and sniffling) again tonight. Or if I’ll get the kind of decent…

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So Much Trek

I ran across this awesome intersection of fandoms earlier this week, and it seemed an oddly appropriate reflection of how much Star Trek I’ve been watching recently. Especially since that flu bug circled back around this week, and I spent another day at home mostly trying to not fall asleep, but also continuing my Next…

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Cover Reveal: Blood Courtesans boxed set

I’m excited to help my author friend Jennifer James start promoting her latest venture–participation in a boxed set. Check it out if you’re in the mood for vampires and romance: BOOK DETAILS: Blood Courtesans: Awakenings Boxed Set Publication date: January 17th 2017 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Synopsis: Darkly decadent and sinfully sensual. Enter a world where vampires…

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Life Tip

I wonder how much bad news humans can handle–asking for a friend. Despite how much I’ve backed off social media, and how much I’ve been bingeing Star Trek: The Next Generation, news keeps slipping in between the cracks. The writer friend who created #wordmongering lives in northern California. She was forced to grab her furbabies…

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Running Down Dreams

It seems the old “it bleeds, it leads” adage is alive and thriving on the glut of death and disaster in our world. Last week it was enough to make me retreat, focus heavily on the safe space hubs and I have built together. And not blog. Even though Tom Petty’s death in particular hit…

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Life Stages

Yesterday we celebrated both (Husky baby) KouKi’s third birthday and niece Karalynn’s fourteenth birthday. Facebook has been kind enough to remind me of all the other birthdays friends and family are facing this week as well. Given the stories I’ve heard and lived this year… this week’s image was too funny to pass up. It…

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Being Busy

The observant among you may have noticed my radio silence over the past two weeks. It’s the time of year when work requirements compound; this is the third September in a row I’ve had to travel to attend a six-month review and planning meeting. Even knowing what’s coming doesn’t make them any easier, but my…

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