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  • Rituals

    Rituals

    What ordinary rituals did your family have? Perhaps you always got ice cream after baseball games, or went fishing on Sundays. Do you feel like it brought you closer as a family? Does “going to science fiction conventions” count as an ordinary ritual? My dad was a writer, my uncle is a writer, so we

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  • Hey, baby, what’s your style?

    Hey, baby, what’s your style?

    One thing you’ve all been watching me do for the last year is make my house my own – mine, instead of ours. I didn’t realize how scanning in all these old photos was going to help me with that. Every time I try to think “what did I like, before Tim? What did I

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  • Sometimes it’s still weird

    Sometimes it’s still weird

    Dear Timmy Sean; Sometimes it’s still weird. Sometimes I still have moments when I forget that you’ve died – surely we just had a fight, and you left? And eventually you’ll be back for some of the eight gazillion forks, or to tell me where you left the big rolling pin? Other times it’s a

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  • Places

    Places

    Remember a new place you visited (a cool house or restaurant, a new neighborhood, or even a new country). Try to remember seeing the place for the first time. How do you feel? Write as if you were telling a friend about the experience. The first time I went into Chopstix Cafe, I was nervous.

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  • I need a personal assistant

    I need a personal assistant

    What is today? Is it just Thursday…? Sunday was GLAM. So Saturday I packed everything I hadn’t already packed, and loaded my car. Sunday morning, Jeff put whatever didn’t fit in my car into his truck, and we hied off to GLAM. Jenn met us there, we unloaded the car, unpacked everything, had GLAM, repacked,

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  • Brain Dump

    Brain Dump

    In no particular order…. My studio smells like cat poop. Mama Shitten on a healthy diet for a change is making for some … epic olfactory episodes. Troublesome has figured out that if he stays inside the studio I won’t bring the dogs over, because he’s dog aggressive. He’s now in the studio all the

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