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
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,
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
Okay, Maybe We’ve Overdone the Mysteries
December Books: 4/4 (Edited Out and It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Mischief) Howdy, squiders. We’re a week out from Christmas, so that’s a thing. I could probably use a few more stocking stuffers, but we’ve reached a point
And Then We Promptly Gave Up on Everything
December books: 2/4 (Rockin’ Around the Chickadee and For Duck’s Sake) By which I mean I got sick and have thus not done any more writing, and, frankly, am unlikely to do anymore between now and tomorrow. (Maybe I will
Nano Writing: Essentially the End
November Books: 5/6 (Songs of Power, The Keeper of Magical Things, and The Night Guest) (The Night Guest shared a lot of similarities with One of Those Faces from last month that I didn’t like at all. This one was
Nano Writing: Week 2.5
November Books: 2/6 (Cold and Hottie) Howdy, howdy, squiders, hope your November is going well. Sorry about missing last week. I wish I could say that it won’t happen again, but experience tells me that we’re going to be real
NaNo Writing: Week One
November Books: 1/6 (The Story of the Treasure Seekers) Hey ho, squiders, hope your November is going well! Here we are, a week into the month. I expressed my intent last week to do a Nano-esque challenge this month, and
I Think I Need a Clean Slate
October Books: 5/6 (One of Those Faces, do not recommend, and House of Shadows) Been doing a bit of soul searching, squiders, because I was supposed to come back from Disney/Universal and get going on organizing all the writing I



