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The burn ban. The pain did not begin with the cake or fire or police, but it ended with the pain in my feet. I do not believe this was all my fault, but I will worry that it was. Maybe the bad day began with the cake. I did everything right. With multiple dietary…
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And a check came for my story, “If It Were True Owls Dream.” It appears in issue 5 of Liminal Stories. The illustration they chose disturbs me because in my head I see Beatrice from the other side, facing left. (Plus, this character is right-handed.) The early drafts of this story used my grandchildren’s names, but those…
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The brown pelicans are here. We found a shed flight feather on the sand. We think we found weasel tracks in the sand. Not dog or cat or rat or raccoon. Little weasel tracks. By the time I got them with a camera, the sun was up and the tracks had begun to fall in.…
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When I was a teenager, my mother was buying and selling antiques. She reported the income as coming from both herself and my dad because, having worked for the feds and before that for a college, he did not have many years in the Social Security system. In other words, he qualified for a federal…
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The yarn above is from the blanket I just completed. The warp was 8.5 yards, and I wove three 82.5″ lengths and then seamed them to make a blanket of 75″ x 88″ including fringe. One of the lengths used weft very like the warp and the resulting fabric is warm-toned and reddish. The other…
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One of our sons just adopted two kittens. They are adorable and I got to hold and pet them the other day. We are in the midst of “Swedish death cleansing” known as döstädning. “It’s what people are doing before somebody passes away so that the relatives don’t get left with the big chore of sorting out…
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Love is love. [This was written but not posted many weeks ago.] From The Hill, a primarily political newspaper in Washington DC. This is not how I want my home state to appear in the national news: An Oregon school district reportedly forced an LGBTQ student to read passages from the Bible as a form of…
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I made salal muffins yesterday morning. The berries grow wild in our hedge and ripen over a period of weeks or months. The muffins were made with organic flour and eggs, butter and some maple syrup for sweetening. I had two with butter for my breakfast. That’s about 400 calories, which is allowed and also…
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We live right onshore, just a few bare feet above sea level. Every day we watch the Pacific Ocean wash in and out just beyond our front yard. Since 1979, the ocean has slid through the path in the hedge and onto the grass just twice. The Cascadia Fault is a concern, but like most…
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