My hands have been steadily getting worse. I have finger pain, knuckle pain, pain in the center of the palm, pain in the thumb joint. The hands hurt. I’ve tried creams and over the counter painkiller, and making sad eyes at Gordon, so he would rub my hands, which he does, but none of it
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Last Eight Days
Day 1 Me, calling Kid 1 back to the house from the office: Hey, could you please tell your dad that I can’t turn the heat on in the office? Is there some switch I should flip somewhere? He isn’t answering his cell. Kid: Okay. 5 minutes later Gordon: What’s going on? Me, handing the
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Flaws
Why was Kid 1 wearing shorts in cold weather? She wore shorts because she was in the kitchen drinking coffee, comfy and warm, and I dragged her to the back yard to model the shawl for me for about a minute. 🙂 Is there anything you can’t do?? Seriously!? Ilona, you are this uber tea
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No, We Are Not Moving to Maryland
Are you moving to Maryland? No. We have received a number of emails – please stop abusing the technical issue report form – about why and when we are moving to Maryland and whether our books will be now set in Baltimore. Sorry, this is one of those cases where I was really asking for
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Living in Maryland
First, brief update on Ryder: yes on print and yes on audio. We will provide links to you when they are available. Second, at this particular time, we do not provide signed books. I have a question for you: what is it like to live in Maryland? Also, why is it that with all that
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The Siege of the Evil Bobcats
Kid 1, running down the stairs last night. Me: What’s going on? Kid 1: I ordered food and the driver can’t get out of the car because he’s surrounded by bobcats! :dashes out the front door:: Me: Did she just say bobcats? Gordon gets up and heads to the door. I present to you the
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Sunday at Home
In the middle of EMERALD BLAZE release, Gordon told me, “I booked a vacation.” I just sort of turned around and looked at him. COVID is going on, we are on a crushing deadline, we’d have to board seven animals… He said, “It’s a house on Santa Rosa beach. It has its own private access
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Watermelon Bandits
Yesterday we ordered grocery delivery and the only slot we could get was between 8:00 and 9:00 pm. Normally, the grocery delivery person texts us right away after dropping our purchases off on the porch by the front door. This time the text took a little bit to arrive, maybe 10 minutes. I don’t know
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UPS Bitching and Quincy’s Lament
I ordered some yarn from Purl Soho. It’s an alpaca blend, which I don’t normally use, and so I wanted to try it. It was shipped by UPS. Behold my tale of woe. It’s been sitting at the UPS for 2 days. Pre-Covid, shipments from California came in 2 days, door to door. I want
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Long Week, Factories, and Kids
A terribly busy week. We wrote Ryder on Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, after a discussion with Avon, a decision was made to write Arabella’s very short story bribe. By the way, thank you to all of the OB-GYN who responded. We got our two experts, but we deeply appreciate your help. We
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Personal Post and Upcoming Promo
On July 12, Kid 2, whom some of you know as “Brandi,” sent a video of herself squirting hot sauce into her mouth followed by “Look at this, I can’t taste or smell anything.” This has never happened before in her entire life, not with colds, not with flu, not with any infection she’s ever
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Life, Surprise Guests, and Stress
Guests Gordon: Hey, come outside. Bring the phone. Me: ? They hung out in the front yard for hours. We were fifteen feet away. Stress Posted with permission from Kid 1. We are all a bit stressed out right now for certain reasons, and I walked into the kitchen to find Kid 1 particularly freaked
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