One More Kitty Post
Today is the day that I always celebrated as Kiera’s birthday. It was the day that I was able to take her home from the no-kill cat shelter where we’d found each other.
I’d gone to the shelter just to look.…
Today is the day that I always celebrated as Kiera’s birthday. It was the day that I was able to take her home from the no-kill cat shelter where we’d found each other.
I’d gone to the shelter just to look.…
Essay – On Travel
I started this Patreon with the idea that I’d be doing a lot of traveling, and I wanted to invite y’all to come with me.
Then the pandemic happened, and I stopped traveling.
I’m going to Mexico this week.…
As you may or may not know, I’ve had a lot (A LOT) of stress recently. So many, many stressy things. In addition to that, I’ve injured myself more than once recently, so I haven’t been able to walk or exercise, which is one of the ways I deal with stress.…
Every year, generally for the first essay of the year, I do a piece about my hydroponics system. I purposefully delayed the essay this year because it’s going to be a bit different.
This is probably the last time I’m doing an essay about all the hydroponic plants because they’re all going away.…
According to my records, I read 48 books last year. For the last couple of years, I read 38 books over the course of a year, so go me for reading more!
I’ve talked about most of these books in my newsletter, but they were good enough that I wanted to talk more about them in this year-end review.…
Vertigo
Last week, I got sick for a couple of days. A little sniffly, not too bad. Primarily just felt crappy.
On Thursday, I woke up feeling better. Started doing some yoga. Quickly realized that inverting was dangerous. As in, okay, I need to get out of this position, sit on the floor for a while, and try not to throw up.…
When I first started writing the essay that ended up being about brisket (https://www.leahcutter.com/2023/11/essay-all-about-brisket/) my initial intent had been to talk about all the different types of meat that I’d been cooking. That would have included all the special items that I’ve made.…
I figured I’d start the year with some numbers.
Last year, my word count goal was 500K. I didn’t make it. When I look at the planning that I did for 2023, I had estimated that I would only reach 450K words and that I’d have to do a writing marathon sometime during the year to make it to 500K.…
Making Adjustments
This is somewhere between an essay and a blog update. It’s the best I could manage this morning.
As you may or may not know, my cat died on November 30th, one week ago. She was my constant companion for 17.5 years.…
For a while, now, since late summer of 2023, I’ve been planning on traveling with Blaze to do the Hadrian’s Wall walk. It mostly follows the old Roman wall built across the narrowest portion of England.
I’ve bought books for it.…