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  • September 2025 Progress Report

    I’m not the swiftest. It can take me a while to really understand something. Maybe even longer to be able to put it in words. This particular post is about small business generally, and some may even classify it as a rant. Either way, it is a valuable lesson I’ve recently been able to put…

  • Hodgepudding

    I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. HODGEPUDDING A pudding of many ingredients. I wonder if this is where meatloaf started? I wonder this because a “pudding” in the medieval era is much different than a pudding in modern American.…

  • September 2025 Mental Health Wednesday

    The last few months have been rough for me, though I don’t know exactly why. I’ve been excessively fatigued, exceptionally spacey. I’ve gone through the usual suspects: diet, supplements, meds, menopause, recovering TBI, a basic downward spiral, even the beginnings of a cold (that irritating beginning, where you wonder if you’re getting sick, but your…

  • IWSG September 2025

    Now that I’ve published the first book, and I’m working on formatting the second, I’m struggling with a few things, mentally and emotionally. One of the bigger “things” I deal with, is the feeling of being a burden. That’s part of why it took me so long to start self-publishing in the first place: How…

  • August 2025 Progress Report

    We are formatting the ms for the first fantasy novel. It’s a little easier the second time around, but the PDF formatting is still a booger. I’ve learned from the formatting of the romance novel, to go through it for formatting marks and set it up for epub submission, then do the PDF formatting, because…

  • Word Wednesday: Xenization

    I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. XENIZATION Traveling as a stranger. Sometimes I think traveling as a stranger would be nice