Behold a wide variety of topics. How to Make people not to use your browser This is the view of my Wordpress dashboard in Chrome. The latest Chrome update broke Wordpress, so if you are seeing this, it's not you. It's them. I am typing this in Edge. It's not rendering Gutenberg icons sharply enough, and it's annoying. Tea Verdant …
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The phone kept ringing. Officially Linus Duncan, once the most powerful man in the state, was retired. In reality, he still served the state of Texas in a new, more frightening capacity, and I was his deputy. He always answered my calls. Beep. Another. Linus’ voice came on the line. “Yes?” ...spoilers.... Leon ran up and halted next to me. “Do you …
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Brandi is sick. Gordon and I are hovering on the edge of sick. Kid 1 is patient zero who infected all of us. Because Brandi is sick, I decided to look at the emails this week. I had to reach for a bit of tranquility before responding to the one below, so here is a beautiful lotus for you. Image by Hong Zhang from Pixabay As a fellow …
Life With A German Shepherd
I am overwhelmed with tea. I feel that I need to take a weekend to sort the tea out. Thank you! This is Artha. She is our granddog. Doors Artha, bumping my elbow with her nose: Hello. I'm Artha. I've checked the doors for the 7th time. Everything is locked. Gordon: Pillow, Artha. Pillow. Artha, sits on the pillow. 10 …
A Question of Leaves
Image by Ascyrafft Adnan from Pixabay This morning I have a very serious question for you. I've been a bag tea drinker most of my life. Except for the time I lived in Russia, where tea was always loose leaf. In US, my life got busy and I switched to the bags. A few weeks ago, I bought white tea on a whim from HEB, our local grocery store. …
Damned If You Do…
Image by こうこう きちでん from Pixabay A while ago I did a blog post answering the question about writing diverse characters. Among the points that were brought up were creative description of skin color and how people find it unpleasant to be compared to food and the fact that we now add a descriptor to our characters, pointing out when someone is …