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I'm still doing LetterMo (and InCoWriMo)!  As of today I have mailed out 22 letters/postcards/cards (with one ready to go in the mail), received 3 replies and one letter-not-a-reply, and drawn castles, maps, lava, clouds, and barns ( Read more... )

This month - as I did 2 years ago - I am participating in A Month of Letters / International Correspondence Writing Month.

The goals of these two remarkably similar things are, respectively:

Mail something every day the post runs in February; reply to every letter you get.
handwrite a l

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I am wrapping up my fifth bullet journal - all but the first holding 6 months each; for the first I used the back of an old notebook I’d had lying around (everyone has those, right?) as a test.

I love it.

I mean, considering I've kept something up for over two years

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Content Warning: The below discusses family issues, death, disconnection, drama, and pain.  It's as close to unfiltered as I get on a public space.

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I’ve been thinking about audience lately.

(Hi, Audience!)

So some of what I’ve been thinking is how things like Rin & Girey started out as this entirely self-indulgent story, and how now it’s one of my most in-depth worlds (Addergoole/Fae Apoc is THE most in depth, but that’s because of t

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Spring is coming!  Dun-dun-dun.

I know this because the calendar says so, even if what the yard says is “hey, have another two inches of snow, since you haven’t had any in a whole day and a half.”

My yard is very helpful like that!

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This morning, around 6 a.m., I woke up to a silent house, a blank display on my alarm clock, and a cold nose.

Last night, while we were making dinner, I got the robo-call telling me that my university job (which “never closes” and has closed twice in the two winters I’ve worked there) was close

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DialMforMara suggested that I blog about plants, and here I am.

Plants.
I bury my toes in loam-dark soil;

I walk barefoot through the dirt my ancestors farmed. 
That is the part I easily remember of a poem I wrote in high school, when the assignment was roots.

Yeah, but it took me more

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@DialMforMara prompted me
Write about the sensory experience of drinking your favorite tea or coffee.
Comfort ( Read more... )