What is my dream job? To write full time. That is to say, I’d be making enough from my writing to quit any other kind of work. That’s not easy to do. Very few make enough from their writing, books or otherwise, to not have another job. Most of us do both. And to be...

Gonna get back to answering prompts tomorrow, I think, but for tonight… Thinking about David Lynch today. Have been for the past couple days, ever since hearing of his passing. We did a deep dive on him around this time two years ago, and I mostly remember being...

Didn’t do much today. Still getting my LA legs underneath me. I went and got food. That was good. Washed my car. Picked up a scrip for Liz. Cleaned a little bit. But mostly watched Wrexham and just let the day slip. Tired. Gonna be tired tomorrow, too, I think. But...

The pack is back together. Joy is sleeping on my lap and Coops is down at the end of the bed with his sweater on, all snuggled into Liz’s extra blanket, the pink one. This is home. Slept in. We woke up around 11, which means we got a full night’s sleep. Whew. Got up,...

I watched Fitzcarraldo on the flight home. It was so good! And by that I mean…it was very, very clunky in parts, I’m not actually sure that Klaus Kinski worked as the main character (in that he was tooooo crazy, maybe?) even though he certainly looked the part, the...

Our last full day. Sigh. It’s been a good trip. We went up to a spa today and got massages together. Afterwards, we both decided that getting massages is probably a great way to start a trip, at least in Hawaii, where everything is better the more you relax. The...

We did an amazing tour today of an ahupua’a on Kauai called “Waipa.” It means, essentially, a subdivision of Hawaiian land. They were basically watersheds, and one group of people—with one person in charge—were responsible for each of these districts that had its own...

Making this another quick one because we get up early again tomorrow BUT… Woke up early and caught our boat tour out to the Napali coast…which was SPECTACULAR. We saw whales jumping and slapping their tails, we saw bottlenose dolphins who are apparently dicks, we saw...

A quick one tonight because it’s late and we’re up decently early in th morning, but here’s the rundown: We got up and did a nice, chill morning. Made brekky for each other, then walked along the beach path. THEN…packed up and set off for our whale watching boat tour....

Today, we went to the shelter and picked up a dog to go and take on a “field trip” around the island. Her name was Crisco, like the shortening, and she was 9 years old. A big girl, about 60 lbs (which is big, at least, for us), and clearly had been a mother to puppies...