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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
I am generally quite organized and able to accomplish a lot of things.
A lot.
Right now, that isn’t possible. It has nothing to do with being disciplined or more focused. I literally don’t have the time or the brain space/capacity to do more than I currently am.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…