Home. Wiped. Good god I’m so tired. Travel does that! Coops was waiting for me when I got home. All by himself, poor guy, but he’d been taken care of throughout the day. Sweet boy. He was so happy to see me…and now it’s like I never left. He was ready to do nighttime...

Joy is my little companion, now. We’re super duper bonded. My little shadow. She’s often asking now to be up on my lap, where she lets out a big sigh and falls asleep. Even Coco wouldn’t ASK to be on my lap. Not really, anyway. She’d look at me sometimes with big...

It is wild - so much of the publishing world that I’m a part of—a very, very small part, to be sure—is the frontier. It’s messy. Really, really messy. And to be honest, I stay out of it almost entirely. My dragon to slay is not the reputation of self-publishing, or to...

An old Heinichen family tradition has been rekindled: we went and watched a movie together in the theater. Godzilla: Minus One! It was a blast. Plucky heroes. Badass battles. Set right after WWII. What’s not to love? Got up a bit early to take care of Joy (right at...

A wonderful Christmas day. Just miss Liz. It’s very, very weird to be away from each other on this holiday. I don’t think we’ve done that in…oh man, over ten years. And I miss Coopey, too. And Coco. Not to say that my day has been filled with “missing.” It hasn’t....

Merry Christmas Eve to everyone who celebrates, and to those who don’t: happy holidays 2023 is almost behind us. Wild. Been an intense year. An intense few years. But, we made it. I made it. I’m looking forward to the new year and the opportunities it will bring. Had...

My bro has a new front door on his house! He and Dad finagled it all day, basically, and got it perfect. That’s honestly some of my dad’s best work, those fine details, fiddling with something until it’s perfect. He’s very, very good at doing that. This was the...

I made it up to Portland. Whew. Joy was good on the plane and in the airport. She got antsy here and there, for sure, but never barky. Never whiny. Only restless, which made me worried she needed to like poop or something. But, nope. It was just because she wanted me...

I didn’t get everything done that I was hoping to today…but I got enough done. I’m packed and ready to go. The house is clean. I hope our friend Matt has a nice time staying here. Joy is ready to travel with me; we’ll see how she does. I think she’s going to do just...

Podcasted tonight. Our last one of the year. We watched A Muppet Christmas Carol, which was delightful, of course. So fun. So silly. And with such a clear message, such a clear character arc and life lesson: Christmas is about giving, not receiving. It’s about the...