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Blog for May 2026

May blog, 2026 Blog, I must blog… I have been trying to keep up with things, and now my word program is predicting what I’m going to type next. F* how do I stop that? I hate this program. AI needs to stop trying to help me. I have enough problems without contributing to them. […]

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Blog for February 2026

Feb 1st, 2025 Blog It has been quite a week in our little city and across our whole NC state. First, we got about 4 inches of ice and sleet. It refroze every night, as we had barely seen temps above freezing. Then this weekend, it snowed continuously for about 23 hours. My foot-l

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New Year: 2026 post

The trials of these last few months have been rolling around in my head. I have tried to stay positive but… It’s beyond difficult. Maybe all humans are feeling this way. For me, there is another layer, perhaps, and it feels slightly deeper. I see many of the things I have written

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Mid-month December blog

This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is

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December 2025

Hello, all you wonderful people. It is December already. It’s cold, very cold. Good to stay inside and write. Well, edit to be specific. I’m learning the new tools and ways of doing things. The info I got from that class I took is settling into my daily writing. I see improvement

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November 1, 2025

Hi all. It has been a crazy month. I spent time at a writers’ workshop this month. It was all about getting everything ready to sell my book(s) to an agent. I learned a lot; there was so much information that it has taken weeks to fully understand it. This last week was the scary

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Blog October 2025

How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]

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September 2025 blog

Last month has been crazy for me, and probably for you’al. Things have been busy both outside and in my head. The old greenhouse is almost revamped and ready for the winter. I hear that it will be cold and snowy. I’ll believe it when I see it. So far, it has been one of […]

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What are you passionate about?

Today’s prompt. I kinda feel like writing about it, or maybe not. My passion runs thin at the moment. There is so much happening in the world. Everyone seems to hate everyone else, whom they see as the ‘other.’ We have been fortunate in the last 50-80 years to enjoy (basically) p

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New Years Blog

January 2025 2024 has been a year of totally unexpected, life-altering things for me. The challenges and the trust needed to just let the past go and move forward into the unknown have been huge. So much soul-searching has been filling my brain this year, it has been hard to over

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November Wrap-up and on to the end

December 1, 2023 blog Here it is, the last blog of 2023. I made it through the pain of the final Dome edits. I’m in the middle of my final read-through, and that of a friend, to see what else needs to be tightened up. Domes is slightly smaller in word count, slightly is the […]

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