February books: 0/4 (Doing great. Have read four volumes of manga, though.) (Sarcasm!) The drama thing continues to take up all my mental and emotional energy, which is so, so dumb. The worst of it is that it took something
Why is There Always Drama (and January Thoughts)
January Books: 5/4 (Weird Parenting Wins) No February books as of yet. Sorry I missed my second update last week, squiders. There’s been ~*~drama~*~ with my volunteer commitments, which is always so dumb. We’re all adults, why can’t we act
Always Pondering
January books: 4/4 (Love’s a Witch) You know how long I’ve had this blog, squider? 15 and a half years. That’s an insane amount of time to do anything, really. This blog is older than my children. Ha! Like any
Creative Vibes
January Books: 3/4 (Five Golden Wings) Hi ho, squiders, you’ll be happy to know I haven’t touched video games since my post last Thursday, which follows established trends and is not surprising in the least. I wish I could say
Actually, Let’s Talk About Those Video Games
January Books: 2/4 (Writing Down the Bones) Since my post on Tuesday, I have: It’s a lot of video games, like I noted on Tuesday, and it’s continued to be a lot of video games. So I got to thinking…is
Mid-January Check-In
Little early, but hey, why not. January books: Still 1/4 Reading As we can tell from my usual count, it doesn’t sound like a lot is getting done. But I’m still working through that Weird Parenting Wins book (and I’m
Goals and So Forth for 2026
January Books: 1/5 (Rose/House) Now that we’ve got last year’s reading stats out of the way, we can talk about 2026 and goals and whatnot. As you guys know if you were here over the last year, 2025 was rough,
2025 Reading Stats
Happy new year, squiders! I hope you’re off to an encouraging start! It’s time for my yearly reading stats post, which is interesting to me and maybe no one else, but I like numbers and so here we are. Books
Not-So-Liminal
Howdy, howdy, squiders. My coffee shop is so full that we’ve had to sit outside, even though it’s only 40 degrees out. Adventures! Historically the week between Christmas and New Year’s has been a weird, liminal time, where the old
Christmas Movies Now and Then
December books: 6/4 (A Wonderful Christmas Crime and Writing While the World Burns) The other night we watched the Christmas Chronicles, which, while not a new movie (it came out in 2018), was a new movie to us. This is
