i wish i could be as at peace as a tiny dog in a backpack going on a train trip

oh we are so back

sure we’re rationing the $8 eggs but don’t worry planes fall out of the sky now too and we’re cracking down on on those woke dei transgender mice!!!

anyway. next week i have to rewrite several research proposals but one of these things is done. (it’s getting MVP as the thing, obviously)

world is bad & stressful but i did a big scary exciting professional thing today that i can’t wait to hopefully talk about AND ALSO i am back in london to hang out with my biological daughter (phoebe the miniature poodle) so maybe there is yet hope

ophelia would like everyone to know she started on prozac today and has a lot of feelings about it

the lake on the family farm has frozen over so we’ve started taking the dogs out skating on it with us and today it started snowing while i was out there alone skating listening to music & i think i’ve hit a new level of peaceful idyllic midwest princess

i shredded some chicken so my cat who is on a bland diet could have thanksgiving too; the dogs did NOT get the memo

happy thanksgiving made my sister do my hair and makeup so tried to take some grown up selfies but this felt more emotionally true to who i am sorry

hello i am claire i write murder books about teens and ghosts and angry forests (coming to a bookshelf near you………. eventually) but mostly you can find me petting goats and telling them i love them

big day but my head feels like bricks and my cat is running around screaming covered in catnip this is how dreams are made

gonna start using this one more than the other one so hi here’s a picture of my cat for posterity