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 […]
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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
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. However, the brisket essay turned out to be long enough just on
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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
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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. I adopted her in 2006. Blaze didn’t come along until 2013,
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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. I determined that we wanted to do it on our own, and not via
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My darling Kiera passed this morning, Thursday, November 30, 2023. She was at least eighteen and a half years old. I adopted her in March, 2006, from a no-kill cat shelter. They estimated she was at least a year, possibly a year and a half old at the time. Two weeks ago, I’d taken her
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I’ve been on the carnivore diet for about six months now. I continue to feel amazing, with lots of brain and energy. However, just having meat all the time, every day, can get a little monotonous. I’ve really had to up my seasoning, rubs, and cooking game. So I thought I’d talk a bit about
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I went on the carnivore diet about six months ago. About two months in, I suddenly had brain again, was able to write as I had been in the before times. My daily word count has gone back to 3000 words a day, instead of 1500 a day. It’s really obvious in the current book
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I recently finished the Water Witch Mysteries Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1835431132/the-water-witch-mysteries Here’s my analysis of how the campaign went. Overall, I think this campaign was much more successful than the first campaign I ran for Paper Mage. There are several reasons for this. –Though I grossed less money—$1500 for Water Witches, and $2000 for Paper Mage—I am keeping a lot
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