Photo of the Week: Goodbye, Animals
Taken August 14, 2014 with a NVIDIA Shield tablet. My son has had summer school in the morning, followed by camp in the afternoon, for six weeks. Each day as part of our getting ready routine, I asked...
View ArticleAn Adventure, in Three Screenshots
It started innocently enough… We found our way home eventually, and immediately fell into a deep slumber, as if we hadn’t really ever woken up this morning. I know it was all true, though, in a hazy,...
View ArticleReflection, 2015
Looking back over 2015, and really, over the last several years, it’s immediately obvious that I have had a lot of struggles. My life now is vastly different from where it was 10 years ago. I’ve left...
View ArticleBad News: Can’t Be at Boskone
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend Boskone this year. I lost my sitter suddenly, and with my son’s disability, new staff takes time to train. I was so looking forward to seeing everyone! I am...
View Article3 Weeks Post-Surgery: Mostly Good (Even the Cancer Part)
Three weeks ago, I went to the hospital for surgery. They removed half of my thyroid, because it had developed nodules (what they call thyroid tumors they suspect are benign) and had swollen up enough...
View ArticleUpdates and News (August 2016 edition), or, Damn, That Was the Hardest Month
#SFWAPro In August: I fell apart a bit. I’ve said it before but this year has proven to me that the last 3 weeks of August (and the first week of September) are the hardest “month” of the year. That’s...
View Article10 things that made my 2016 (a little) better
For most people, 2016 was a fucked up, miserable, factually terrible dumpster fire of a year. Icons died, racists thrived, and everywhere you looked, someone else was telling you not to be so upset,...
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