The world is dripping. We have the sliding door to our bedroom open still and the rain has tailed off to just drips, like surround sound, coming from everywhere. It’s one of my favorite sounds, the drip drip drip after a rain. It makes me think of the forest. If the...

Busy busy day today but I got a lot done! Excavation of the parking space is underway. Pages were written. I got through an hour of proofreading. Got all my Netflix work done. Coops is getting better. Much more pep in his step this evening, and we’ve figured out the...

Cooper had a good day. Last night was slightly terrifying. We were told we could give him gabba (his pain med) every six hours—as needed—and since he’d just had surgery, we figured go for the most aggressive dosaging. Well…he woke up in the middle of the night so...

So, Cooper had 15 teeth extracted today (fifteen!). Over half of those were already actually broken off, and just the roots sitting in his gums. When we took him in for the procedure, we assumed it was periodontal disease, but that turns out not to be the case: he has...

Coops goes under tomorrow morning to get some teeth extracted. Poor bubs has some periodontal disease that’s developed over the past couple years despite the fact that we brush his teeth, dental chews, stuff in his water…sigh. We didn’t do good enough, I guess. But...

I’m all thumbs tonight because Joy has decided I am her pillow and she’s not moving. She’s currently on her back, belly up, in the position we like to call “rotisserie chicken,” because that’s what it looks like. She’s such a snug. Today felt like the first normal day...

Sheesh. Another exceedingly busy day. Work-wise, writing-wise, socially, helping Liz…busy day. But I got everything done I set out to. I’m beat, though, so we’re cutting it short tonight. Alastair is off on Sunday to Vancouver to shoot God of War, so we had a little...

I was thinking about therapy just now, how today I walked my new (old) therapist through my reading routine breakthrough, excitedly sharing step by step how it works and how it came to be…and I had the a question pop into my mind all the sudden: I wonder if that’s...

Got aaaallll my writing done, got work done, no reading but that’s okay, work was busy, ate my salad, took care of the pups…a good day. Dampened a little bit by watching one the Warriors players—Moses Moody—go down with a pretty gruesome-looking knee injury. I hope...

There are two perfect dogs at my feet right now, watching patiently and very very goodly as Liz goes through the nighttime treat drawer getting them their before-bed yums. We, boy…we do A LOT for nighttime routine. First, we take them each out to go potty, sometimes...