I love reading short fiction. I grew up reading “Omni” and “Asimov’s” and “F&SF”. I almost always buy the “best of” anthologies in mystery, SF, F, and literary. (I almost always read them, as well! I’m a bit behind in my short fiction reading for this year. I blame that on the anthology workshop, as I’m still just […]
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Last week, after three months, I added eggs back into my diet only to discover I was really allergic to them. This week, I added back in dairy. The result was…mixed. Unfortunately, I added four types of dairy all at the same time: butter, soft cheese, sour cream, and hard, aged cheese. I didn’t have
Tried eggs for the first time in three months. Based on my reaction, eggs are now permanently OFF the menu. Started off with vertigo and pressure in my head. The reaction wasn’t that bad at the start. I wondered if perhaps I had merely a slight sensitivity, and I could have eggs now and again.
I only ended up with the one migraine last week, last Monday, which I already reported on. I did have two headaches this weekend while camping. The way I judge the difference between a migraine and a headache is by paying attention to secondary symptoms, such as light sensitivity, noise sensitivity, tinnitus , etc. Or
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For those of you not playing along at home, I realized that for May, I only had 4 migraines. FOUR. Which deserves pompoms and lots of cheering, especially considering that the month before that I had twelve migraines. And on average, I usually had between 8-12 migraines per month. Only having four is nothing short
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As part of the whole ketogenic diet, I use a lot (A LOT) of coconut milk. So I decided to start making my own, in part, because it’s slightly cheaper, but also, because I HATE the waste of opening up all those cans (or cartons!) There are hundreds of recipes for how to make coconut
A week ago or so, I wrote a novel in five days. I was away at a writing retreat, so I had nothing to do but write. When I came home, I tried to recreate this writing speed, with mixed success. A couple nights later, I ended up unable to sleep. Writer brain very happily
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This past week, our intrepid traveler would have to admit to two migraines. The first one was pretty standard, a headache that transformed into a migraine after a couple hours in the morning. The second one was kind of weird. It started as a headache, then it kind of became a migraine, but only for
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Last week, I managed to be incredibly focused. I wrote 10K words per day, while still keeping up 10K steps per day. I was away from home at a writing retreat. The only thing I had to do while I was there was write. This week, I tried to recreate that success, to remain focused
You know what’s coming out tomorrow? The Dwarven Wars, the third novel in the Clockwork Fairy Kingdom trilogy. So you know what I’m doing this week? Giving away copies of the first book! If you sign up for the contest, I’ll send you a free copy anyway, even if you don’t win. Promise! When looking at
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