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Saturday I spent the entire morning in bed. I ignored the world and everything in it until early afternoon. I was reading. Once upon a time I used to spend many a leisurely Saturday morning in such a fashion. Then I grew up. I have come to a determination. It is high time to grown…

What did you get for Christmas? I got a pot. I purple, cast iron, enameled pot. My mother picked it out for me and I love it. It’s frivolous enough that I wouldn’t have gotten it for myself, but it’s purposeful enough that I’ll be able to use it for years to come. In no…

Sometimes you have IT issues that nobody can fix except one particular person who happens to be out of the office for an entire week but only after the IT guys who can’t fix it spend two weeks telling you there’s a problem because of how you’re trying to log in so you have to…

The horizon is hidden by thick layers of clouds and the air is dotted with bits of falling snow. I’m wrapped in a blanket near the fire with my laptop, ready to write another 4000 nano words. My world is filled with softness, quietness, loveliness. You will never succeed in making me believe that winter…

Paul Harding, the author of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Tinkers, spoke at OPL last night. Tinkers was the pick for this years Orem Reads. I had intended to go to the kickoff event, pick up my copy of Tinkers, read it during my lovely vacation, and then listen to Harding speak. I didn’t…

The plan was for me, at this very moment, to be inside Mesa Verde National Park enjoying its wondrous beauty. Unfortunately our not so wondrous national government decided to shut down. Not impressed government, not impressed. The only way to get into Mesa Verde was to become a national trespasser. Sounds kind of fun, huh?…

At least my blog is. I have a friend who has called me the serial blogger. I make blogs and delete them. Blogging seems like a good idea until I start doing it and can’t figure out why I thought it might be a good idea and so delete my blog of the moment. Raspberry…

But it is. I went to bed last night just before nine. It was lovely.

Some old geezer somewhere has spent the last 20 some-odd years sitting in a wheelchair because when I was born I stole his back. It’s a family tradition. My older sister and older brother also have old man backs. We have been justly punished. “My back!” Yeah, that happens in my life. To counter my…

I visited the library on my lunch break. It totally counts as my first visit this week since for my not-real, first visit the library was closed and I was returning materials through the book slot. So technically it was my first visit of the week. Some time ago I told myself that I couldn’t…