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Skydiving, triglycerides, pajamas and inboxes

My friend Siobhan went skydiving a couple of days ago. She’s in a wheelchair because she has ALS. She was diagnosed last year, when her youngest child was just five weeks old.  Siobhan’s determined to make the most of the rest of her life, and I can’t wait to see what she accomplishes next. She’s amazing.

Meanwhile, […]

Tender Ears and Evil Eyes

Simon has discovered I have ears. I mean, he’s always known I have ears, but he used to think I only had them after a shower, when my hair was wet. Now he has figured out that I always have ears. So 30 or 40 times a day, he flies over, lands on my shoulder, […]

Little friends

GC and Rosie and I spent Saturday afternoon hanging out with these people:

We filled a castle with dinosaurs, built a marble race, ate imaginary elephants, raced cars, flew jets and taught a triceratops how to ride a horse. And every time anybody pooped on the potty, we all got to eat a gummy bear!

Random weirdness

The Writer’s Idea Book, by Jack Heffron, contains more than 400 writing prompts and writing exercises. I borrowed it from the library a couple of days ago.

First thing I did when I got it was read the table of contents. Then I decided to just randomly open the book up to any page and poke […]

Wanted

I wonder if Coyote knows his mugshot is plastered all over that new coffee roasting place on Anderson Street? The last thing he needs is a bunch of heavily caffeinated bounty hunters on his tail.

Speaking of bounty hunters, I was thinking about the ways my sister and I used to make money when we […]

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