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We were in your back yard, eating a nice dinner at your picnic table. I think there was corn on the cob. It was sunny, because it’s California and the light was filtering down through leaves or a shade. You were all there, but Andrew is the one I’m addressing right now.

You tried to tell a joke about being on an airplane with Christy and being told that personal items could be held on your lap. It wasn’t a good joke. No one laughed. Actually, it was quite uncomfortable. Although, you grinned. The punchline was that Christy was your personal item. Continue reading “An Open Letter to My Brother-in-Law Andrew, His Wife, and Parents”

I’m handling this week by rewatching Everwood for the first time since it broke my heart by getting cancelled and the boxes of pinecones failed to save it. No other show being cancelled has broken my heart in quite that way.

So far, I’ve realized that Delia is almost certainly why I wear baseball caps, and I’ve rediscovered the line, “you’re talking faster than my brain can process language.” I can’t believe I’d forgotten that moment. I love it so much.

I finished the Tri-Galactic Trek story I was working on last night! So, that means I can release COLLIE COMMANDER next month, but it also means I have to decide what I’m working on next…

I have several projects already underway that I could go back to, but I might want to do NaNoWriMo, which would mean sticking to shorter projects for the next two weeks. And I do have a lot of short stories I could be working on… Continue reading “Between Projects”

My older kid passed their driving test!

I have a kid who can drive…

Time is a wild trip.

Doing a quick run of the numbers, it looks like I’ve sold 44 times as many copies of my books this year as the publisher who unceremoniously dumped them managed to sell last year.

And this year isn’t over.

That publisher was holding me back. Self-publishing is the way.

There’s a lot of art and random commentary from people devoted to the idea that even as you age, you still feel like the same young person inside, and I think there’s a lot of truth to that. At least, in my experience so far, yes, it seems mostly true.

Except for one thing I’ve noticed. Continue reading “Decades and Waking Up”

My teen is trying to make the case that they should drop out of calculus. So far their arguments include, “I can think of five ways garter snakes could kill a person” and “Children don’t scream enough.”

Well, my family tried to watch Agatha All Along…

But after one episode we realized we didn’t remember WandaVision well enough, so instead of proceeding to the second episode, we rewatched the first half of WandaVision. Continue reading “First Episode of Agatha All Along”

I had a dream that Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire was a video game I was playing, but the characters in it were the family from Malcolm in the Middle. And there was this time loop where you had to go back in time to beat the big ghost boss, and the big reveal was that you learned Francis had been Hal all along but at a different age, because you needed him at three ages — Hal, Francis, and the baby — fighting together to beat the big ghost boss. And when we won, there were lots of good Ghostbuster toys for everyone. Continue reading “Darkbusters in the Middle”

Continue reading “Pleasantville”