I've been much more in touch with the seasons since we started working from home 18 months ago. Our house is so open, with so many -- and large, even trapezoidal -- windows -- it is impossible to sleep much past sunrise, and the afternoon sun is frequently too punishing to withstand. I have to hide in the shade, inside my own house ( Read more... )

At that moment, the door to the bar opened, ringing a set of mechanical bells hanging from the cobwebbed wooden ceiling; the old-fashioned mechanical sound startled Frag even though she'd heard it before as she'd entered the small bar.

Killa looked over and excitedly greeted one of her regulars, "Grippa!  Good to see you!  How's your little one ( Read more... )