Black poodle stares at person taking photo.

Louie would like to know why I won’t let him pick the cherries since I’m clearly not doing anything with them.

Vancouver you had one job on the longest day of the year and you boffed it. Where’s my sunshine?

At least!

My face when trying to play an F chord.

My summer office.

Do everyone’s teenagers think they get to comment on whatever their parents are talking about? Asking for me.

Just make it horse shaped and call it Mustang Sally, and then when someone spins it too fast you can admonish them to slow your mustang down.

Louie did not appreciate the rest of the Douglas family singing wear wolves of London. A-ooooo!

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Heck yeah!

PSA

This is amazing. Also I love the idea of a weekly flash non fiction piece.

Sage Turtle’s writing workshops are amazing. Treat yo self in the new year.

You know you’re a Mexican married to a white guy when your husband asks how someone is your cousin and you have to break down what a second cousin is, and what that even means. This isn’t hard, y’all.

I have a quirky microfiction featuring Gingerbread Man. Is it too late to send it out?

I suspect…the trash can. Or maybe shoved into the closet.

Insurance companies denying claims due to deterministic nature of universe Chicago, IL - American health insurers have begun classifying all medical claims as pre-existing conditions and refusing to offer settlements because of the clockwork nature of the physical universe.

Insurance companies denying claims due to deterministic nature of universe

Thank thank goodness it does.

I have coined a new descriptive phrase that will be all the rage in Project Manager circles in 2025: ‘Pissed-off stake-holery.’

True science fiction

“Please give us some of the money we gave you for your labour so we can give it to our board.”

I really like the term executive function theft. It’s pithy and encapsulates the consequences of dumping the back end tasks on the same people over and over.

It’s been 9 months since my sister’s death and I finally wrote something creative.

Everyone needs a little more Murderbot in their life.

Whew that looks like
It will bite back.

My husband bought me a guitar for our anniversary and Louie isn’t impressed by how much I play. Apparently my only function is to play with HIM. As an aside I’m thinking or bring back my ‘advice from a dog columnist.’ Louie is here to help you live your best life.

Submissions open tomorrow for NFFD!

I love Murderbot so much I have the entire series as both ebooks and audio. They are my comfort reads.

Hot to plot? Too hot to plot? I will stop now.

You can fly to Mars with that thing!