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My Mother’s SaltTwo years ago or so, my mother, who was already mostly blind from macular degeneration and was suffering from increasing physical...
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Fire in the skyI’ve wanted to see the Aurora, the Northern Lights, all of my life. I never had a lot of chances – and the one time I came close, on...
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May the Fourth be with you… and the Revenge of the SixthI am a fan. I am die-hard fan. I know the original Star Wars movie pretty much off by heart and can speak the dialogue with the actors as...
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The mystery of spoonsWe all have a cutlery drawer in the kitchen, right? Well, mine is weird. The forks partition has the six forks that came as the set which is in...
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So I used to write a LOT of poetry…I cut my teeth on poetry when I was little, I used to know a lot of it off by heart (there’s just snippets of a lot of that left,…...
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I am standingI dream solid chewy dreams, and sometimes they turn into stories or even novels (and once a trlogy) but often they are just things I remember...
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Mountain to Mahomet time, as it wereBecause of Circumstances Beyond My Control I could not make Norwescon this weekend and am stuck at home. I was scheduled for a reading slot, and I...
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Into the sands, part 2: Villeneuve’s Dune, Part the Secondread the first part of this blog, intro to the Dune world and its franchise, here Okay. Just home from seeing Dune Part Two. I’d got...
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Into the sands, part 1: Dune, redux…So. I had a hot ticket in hand for Dune #2 this afternoon at 2 pm but by barely past noon the weather was DOING THINGS. Doing things I did…...
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An exclusive clubSo, I just joined a very exclusive club – one which I never thought anything I wrote would get anywhere near. People, a county in Florida...
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Bingo!So you think you’ve read a lot of my stuff? do you know the answers to all the questions above? Have fun playing Alma Alexander Bingo! ...
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An updated re-post: A year of reading an author named Almaoriginally published back in 2020 – re-posted for your reading pleasure with updates… A year of reading an author named Alma [A few...
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My mother’s “glad rags”So here’s a thing that is relevant to what I am about to tell you. My mom was always *tiny*. She never weighed more than some 110 pounds...
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The January Read 2024So another year has rolled by. If you haven’t strolled past here before there’s a tiny bit of backstory to get through. Mysteries are...
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Dreaming storiesThe other day I woke up with a question in my still sleep-blurred mind: “who is Quizmo Cartada?” I had no idea. I actually googled the...
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2023: in the rear view mirrorAs Meatloaf once sang it, objects in the rear view mirror can appear closer than they are – and 2023 (soon to be in the said rear view...
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Out to the MoviesSo, I took in two movies lately – out to the movies toe see “Wonka”, and “Barbie” came out to where I could stream it...
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The Month of CatsFor the last four feline residents of this house, December has been the Coming Home month. The Month of Cats began when I fell in love with a...
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Happy Gotcha Day…A year ago today, you were poised on the edge of a new life. You were officially mine, but not yet in my house – that would happen the...
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Reading. Scarves. Reading scarves.so, I knit up more than one kind of “yarn” – the story kind, and actual physical woolly stuff. See, I sit there when I watch TV...
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Time enough…oh lord, it’s time to go running around changing all the clocks again. Look some people are afraid of the dark. I get it. That doesn’t...
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So, Orycon ’23…Let me share the sorrows and the joys and and the triumphs and the tragedies of this year’s Orycon, now that it is in the rear view mirror....
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And now a word from our sponsors…When my father was dying from cancer, I would sit in the room where he was lying in his bed, on ocygen, with little interest in anything, and play...
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‘Tis the season – for your consideration…For your timely consideration – Christmas special offers for 2023 – go to the “contact me” form on this website to drop me...
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Re-pair…A friend recently and relatively artlessly started talking to me about this OTHER firend that she has – he’s in his early...
