I haven’t talked about my writing much lately. (Then again, I haven’t been blogging regularly at all. I’m trying to change that, to start chatting with y’all again. Not going to guarantee a weekly basis, but that’s kind of what I’m shooting for.) I am still writing! Have been for much of the year. My […]
To recap: March 2023 I had cataract surgery done, replacing the lenses in both eyes. My eyes were naturally monofocal, before the surgery. My left eye needed no correction in terms of seeing things close up, and my right eye needed very little correction to see far. So I have monofocal lenses as well, now.
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As y’all may or may not recall, I had a full knee replacement done three years ago. I figured I’d report in about where I’m at with it. What I want to emphasize is that while the knee replacement isn’t all kittens and rainbows, it needed to be done. I was bad and my knee
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Back in March of 2023, I changed my diet (again) to be mostly carnivore. I was pretty strict for the first month—nothing but animal products, straight black coffee or tea when I had it (because I can’t do dairy so it would have to be coconut milk), no chocolate or nuts, etc. The results for
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I’ve been wanting to do an update on what’s happening in my life for a while now. I realized that part of why I was hesitating was because I’m still so much in the middle of things. As you probably already know, people tend to just post positive things about their lives on social media.
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My husband wrote a Business for Breakfast book about World-Building Space Opera. Recently, while we were going for a drive (as we do) and talking about the next B4B book he’s writing, he asked me if I’d consider writing a business book on how to create magic systems. I thought about it and decided that it
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I take a lot (A LOT) of supplements. Some I take because I think they’re good for me. Others I take because they make a noticeable difference in my health. This list is current as of June 2024. I’m only listing the supplements that I take that make a difference in my health, as well
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It’s that time of year again, time for the mid-year review. This hasn’t been the best year for me, to put it mildly. In fact, it’s been one of my worst years on record in terms of word count, since I’ve been keeping track in a single spreadsheet. 2017 is the last year that even
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Because I’m still recovering my emotional resilience, I’m hyper-aware of those things that I consider “extroverting,” that is, those things that take more energy than they’re putting in. For example, it takes some amount of energy to grill something. The planning takes the largest percentage of that energy. Doing the actual work, that is, making
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As y’all may or may not know, I recently spent six weeks away from home, caring for my niece post-brain surgery. It was one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done in my life. Not the most stressful, but up in the top five. To start with, I was chronically sleep-deprived. She started out
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