bad years are like controlled burns*

by | Dec 31, 2017 | Life and all That

Today is the last day of 2017. There is a lot that history will say about 2017, with many unkind but highly accurate words. I think most of us have already been using those words, often laced with profanity. But this is essay is a personal reflection and, critically,...

The flip side of property insurance claiming

by | Sep 6, 2017 | Life and all That

Thinking about property insurance claims? I bet you are. So listen up: I was a property insurance adjuster for Citizens Property Insurance from 2005-2007, dealing with the aftermath of the 2004 hurricane season, and I’m going to give you advice. I know you all know...

Livejournal and days gone by…

by | Jul 10, 2017 | Life and all That

I got my livejournal account wayyyy back in 2004; from there I updated it irregularly until I fell into fandom in 2007, when I became a power user of LJ and a huge proponent of the site. I paid for my accounts annually and probably would have kept doing so until...

Leave no one Destroyed

by | May 26, 2017 | Life and all That

I am a loner by nature, introverted and reclusive to the core. I always have been, from the time I was a young girl, and while everyone swings back and forth along the extrovert/introvert spectrum during the course of their lives, my swings have run from “mildly...

Keely Update – Six Months Later edition

by | Mar 31, 2017 | Keely-boo

The first photo accompanying this blog post is the first I ever saw of Keely, which was on her bio at the Big Dog Rescue website back in August, 2016. My plan had been to spend a few weeks perusing available dog listings before deciding to meet a few and then pick the...

Updatery part elevenhundy

by | Feb 11, 2017 | Fiction, Life and all That

If you’ve been keeping up with my blog at all (I mean, who hasn’t, amirite?!?!?) then you’ve been keeping up with my “blog a day for a year” posts, right up until there were no more blogs-a-day. I stopped before I hit the 200 mark, so...