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Four Days Post-Op

I am not a stranger to recovery, or enforced bed rest.  I do not like it, but I understand that fighting it is counterproductive.  If I want to heal, I have to play along. (my family is here to enforce this. Nobody wants a repeat of the mono-that-become-double-pneumonia, although in my defense I was 16 […]

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Weekend Dreams

Friday night, I dreamed an incredibly detailed dream of taking a publishing-related course in Germany. I’m pleased to say that once I found the classroom (the tiny cabins filled with firewood within the hotel facade were a nice touch, brain) everything worked out well, despite a) my arriving late and b) my having about five

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Another in a series of meals that probably shouldn’t have worked but were yummy.

1. Make arborio rice with ¼ of the water replaced by (boxed) butternut soup. 2. Add sweet curry powder, onion powder, and garlic powder to the rice as it cooks. Eat half for breakfast (shut up it’s a perfectly good breakfast) and set aside a cup (or more) in the fridge. 3. Within a day

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Finding Your Voice (no, not that voice, the other voice)

Two weeks ago, sitting in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “how to give a reading” seminar at Illogicon*, we discovered that I don’t hum. No, really. She asked us to do a voice exercise that involving humming up and down your range, to expand it, and I… couldn’t. It was such a strange, unfamiliar request, that the

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Been and Back Again

First off: merry Christmas, to those who observe! I’ve been away the past few days (for them as noticed), taking a long weekend retreat up at Zen Mountain Monastery, where my sister lives/studies. There was meditation, and talks, and talking (and listening) and hiking and cookie-baking and a lot of sleep (generally asleep by 10pm

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This Thing I Do…

I’m careful about where I give my charity money. I do my research, I look at the percentage of money that actually goes to the work versus the administration (I’m looking at you, so-called cancer cure charities), and their overall actual impact. And one of the charities I give to regularly is my local food

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