My kids like to invert themselves on the couch. Since there is no harm in whatever sensory regulation such an unusual position provides them, today I stuck this note up like an IRL Easter egg under the TV. I wonder when they'll notice!

We got the trapped bird out of the unused woodstove safely!!!! Eric is my hero!!!!!!!

I just need somewhere to note that this is a great lyric: "The hardest part of getting clean are all the damn apologies / Paying tolls on bridges that I've burnt."

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It's six pages. Settle down, Adobe.

This was the best full day. Cafe co-working with one friend. Impromptu visit from another. Picking up one kid's BFF and hauling everyone to the weekly all-ages art social at Studio Bob. Bumping into more friends there. Coloring while imbibing a sparkly sparkling drink. I'm in love with this life.

So, uh, got a call from my editor a little while ago…

SWORDHEART hit the New York Times Bestseller List.

…at number FIVE.

I just…I…my brain does not know what to do with itself.

Holy boots, I just got a slightly more complicated power automate flow to finally work correctly. COSTANZA OUT