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‪Me: It’s your turn…‬

‪6-yr-old: Where’s my shoe? (disappears under table)‬

‪Me: Did you want to take your turn?‬

‪6: I want all my money in ones (takes a ridiculous stack of poker chips & promptly spills them all over the board, knocking over everything)‬

The six-year-old has a real knack for losing teeth right as we’re sending them to bed, on nights when we’ve already let them stay up unusually late, and then insisting on elaborately decorating the envelope we put the tooth in.

Tonight, as he started to write “I love the money and stickers” on the envelope, he realized that since he didn’t have them yet, it would make more sense to change it to “I’d like $500.”

Ambitious little thing.

I’ve started listening to Nothing Much Happens stories to help me fall asleep at night. They’re lovely and full of sensory details that help lull my brain into settling down and letting go of consciousness. Highly recommended. https://www.nothingmuchhappens.com/

Me, trying to decide which movie to watch tonight: “Coco or Star Wars?”

Six-year-old: “Cocoa with Star Wars? We can drink cocoa and watch Star Wars???” Continue reading “Cocoa and Star Wars”

According to my schedule, I’m a full month ahead on the novel I’m writing, so I’ve decided that the skill I’m going to focus on improving for #NaNoWriMo is being healthy about my writing — continuing to make, ideally, daily progress, but at whatever pace makes me happiest.‬

I’m not a fan of “spring forward,” when everything starts an hour earlier in the morning, but the free hour for “fall back” is awesome, so here’s my plan:‬

‪We get an extra hour in the middle of every Saturday night, & days just rotate slowly forward.‬

This year, Furry Book Month crept up and surprised us, so we didn’t have anything prepared.  However, now that we’re down to the last day — which is also Halloween! — we have two new furry stories to present, and since one is about a haunted cafe and the other about a werewolf in space, we’ve packaged them up with two new ghost stories to create a spooky Halloween issue! Continue reading “Sweet Spooky Treats”

I hit 40k on the sequel to my space opera novel just in time for #NaNoWriMo!

Based on the schedule I originally drafted, I’m now far enough ahead on my novel that I could take all of November off. Sort of like an anti-NaNoWriMo. (Ha. Right. Like that’ll happen.) Continue reading “Halfway on Entanglement 2”

The best houses trick-or-treating are the ones that ask whether the parents would like a candy too. I mean, sure, I can buy my own candy, but it’s much more fun receive it as a quest reward.‬

I’m watching Bladerunner 2049, and even though it’s only two years old, the premise feels as dated as if it were from the early 80s.‬

‪Gee, I wonder why that could be…‬ Continue reading “Bladerunner 2049”