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  • Mental Health Wednesday March 2026

    I quit my job. My last day was February 28. I do not have another job to go to. I am fortunate that the money situation has changed a bit in the house, so I don’t have to have another day-job to jump into, just yet. Which is good, guess. The original plan for the…

  • Progress! February 2026

    Formating is done for the first fantasy book! After four or five catastrophic failures that were mostly user error, it is done! Sort of. I’ve begun proofreading. A new form of irritation. I thought I’d caught all of my fabulously obvious mistakes in this last struggle to format. I was so tragically wrong. As of…

  • Wednesday Word February 2026: Oubaitori

    I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. OUBAITORI A concept that people are like flowers, in that they bloom in their own time, and take their own individual journeys. I like to think this about myself–like I’m that one plant…

  • Mental Health Wednesday February 2026

    When I started writing this, I couldn’t report a downward spiral or an upward momentum at the time. I wouldn’t call it “homeostasis,” more like “dissociation.” Maybe. It’s eerie. It feels a lot like waiting. Waiting for… something. It’s exhausting. I’ve felt the effects of the heaviness in other ways; I have some routines, but…

  • IWSG February 2026

    February 4 question – Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? Most of my experience has been “put the patient on the donor list, but we’re burning most of it.” Even now, as I…

  • January 2026 Word: Vastidity

    I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. VASTIDITY Vastness. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure I can’t say this out loud unless I say it very slowly, carefully annunciating every syllable. I think that’s why I actually don’t like this word that…