The Saga of House
OUR HOUSE We bought our current house in the Pacific Northwest in 2016, four years after moving up here from North Texas. Because the seller is a wanted criminal (which we didn’t know until after closing, of course), we started Read More…
Halloween 2022
For some people, it’s Christmas. Others, Thanksgiving. For me, my favorite holiday is Halloween. Part of the reason I love this holiday so much is because it gives people the opportunity to be whatever and whoever they want to be. Read More…
Tasting Colors
The main word I have today is WOW. Also, COLOR. All the colors. Yesterday, I had “Eye Surgery #1,” which removed the white cataract in my left eye and restored my sight. (Right eye aka surgery #2 will come in Read More…
The March from Hell
March has been…chaos. 2020 was hell. 2021 was heller. 2022 said, “Hold my beer!” in the worst way possible, especially last month. For those following along on social media, you know that Riley’s heart meds are killing his kidneys. Nothing Read More…
A Covid Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house everybody had Covid… Yeah. So my eye injury is still healing and my laptop’s repaired, but at the end of November, I caught Covid. The one time I left my Read More…
Day 171
Welcome to Day 171 of quarantine…at least for me and my partner. That’s 5 ½ months of isolation as we haven’t left our house expect to drive the car and recharge its battery every few weeks. Not even to grocery Read More…
The State of the Union
Look at those last lines in this poem by Nikki Giovanni. I don’t think / I’m allowed / to kill something / because I am / frightened.” Powerful. I’ve started, stopped, erased, rewritten, and pondered on this post many times Read More…
Chenata Update
If you saw my post several weeks back about my new dragon, Chenata, you saw him in his unfinished state. This past Sunday, I went into Two Birds Tattoo for round two and had him finished up. You all–Suzy is Read More…
The Writer with the Dragon Tattoo
Everyone discovers the realms of science fiction and fantasy through different means. Some of us by way of a blockbuster film or bestselling novel, and others by way of a friend or a teacher. For me, it was a mix Read More…
Dear Home Restoration Co.
This post is a part of a new series on my site entitled “Dear ______,” where I plan to write letters to sometimes specific and other times general people. If you want to read more of these, you can see Read More…
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