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Jane Lindskold
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I write. I read. I am a tabletop RPG player. I also have my life managed by cats, guinea pigs, and my garden.
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We had rain yesterday! And here's what I've been reading.

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The Baby Problem
Mei-Ling Reads Although I was a fan of Enright’s books about the Melendy family, I didn’t read And Then There Were Five for many years because the title made me believe that a baby was going to be …
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November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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This week has lots of distractions, some of them very cute!

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I Offer Cute
Find the Kitty! This week, I’m a bit distracted, so I am going to keep the Wanderings short and offer you cute. Featured is Cascabel, our now eight-month-old kitten.  We took her in as a foste…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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This week, all sorts of different things are on my reading shelf!

Are gaming resources fiction or non-fiction?

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FF: The Reader Changes
Cayenne and Kitten Candy Cayenne actually thinks catnip (which is what is in the sock he’s playing with) is magic, but that is the exception that proves how important perspective is to continuing p…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Interesting postscript to this... I'm hearing from a lot of folks in the same city, even at higher altitude that they have not had a killing frost. Microclimates are SO nifty!

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Fascinating Microclimates: Garden and Creative
Late Harvest We finally had a killing frost Sunday night when temperatures dropped to 29 F and took out our garden. Except where it didn’t.  Plants in sheltered areas near walls or items that …
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November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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This week, a mixture of novellas, short stories, and philosophy...

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FF: Thinking About Thinking
Roary Reads While looking for another book, I came across Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and decided to re-read.  A bestseller in its day, which astonishes me on some level.  N…
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November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This week, my tale about how wrong AI can be...

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Proofs In the Reading
Art Detail by Jane Noel To my great delight, Monday’s e-mail brought the page proofs of my short story “Dog Helps Those,” which will be in the next issue of DreamForge magazine.  It’s lavishly…
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November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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7 month-old Cayenne has adopted 13 year-old Persephone as his "Tia." Everyone is delighted.

Here's what I'm reading. Happy Halloween!

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FF: Short Stops
Neighbors: Cayenne and Persephone Lately, novellas are being packaged as novels as is the case with several of the works on this week’s FF list. Now for the usual reminder…  The Friday Fragmen…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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End of season gardening led me to thing about the non-writing writer things. @annakakalton.bsky.social I thought a lot about you because you also make mead and so your harvest is on-going.

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I Am Not a Squirrel
Not Me! I’m not a squirrel, although this time of year I feel distinct sympathy for those hard-working little rodents.  The cactus pears are harvested and processed.  The basil is picked,…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Frost warning. I've transplanted arugula into a pot to see how it will do as a cold weather crop. Shifted snapdragons to shelter. Gotten the amaryllis ready to come in for the winter. Next up. Lily bulbs.

Winter is coming means something different to a gardener, right @tkingfisher.com?
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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This is up late because I've been running errands...

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FF: Eventually, I Get Around To…
Persephone and Cayenne Read I often make a note of interesting books mentioned in the FF comments.  Sometimes, even if the book is on my shelf, as in Navajo Neighbors which is mentioned below,…
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October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Overheard.

"Why are so many women running for office these days?"

"We're used to doing tough, thankless jobs."
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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When life (or your yard) gives you cactus pears...

Here's an experiment suggested by a WW reader last week!

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Brilliant Suggestion!
Nice Cream and Zinnias Last week, when I wandered on about harvesting cactus pears (also called “tunas” or “prickly pears”), I invited readers to offer ideas that would help Jim and me find uses fo…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I just bought new glasses! Pricy, because I have a strong prescription, but I had a delightful chat with the person who helped me, and he really did his best to get me a good deal. SO appreciated.
October 17, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Busy hands make for audiobooks... But print gets a showing, too.

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Busy Hands, Busy Ears
Mei-Ling Reads As harvest season kicks in, I have been going through audiobooks rather fast.  Jim found us a collection of Brother Cadfael novels read by Derek Jacobi, who played Cadfael on te…
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October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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This week... Cactus pears. A little window into what I do when brooding over stories.

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Liquid Jewels
Cactus Pear Treats It’s harvest time, so I’ve been processing the cactus pear tunas (that’s what the fruit is called) that Jim picked and froze over the latter part of the summer.  Freezing so…
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October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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I offer you what I am reading and a nearly 7 month-old chaos factor!

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FF: See Earlier If
Cayenne Reads Cayenne is now approaching seven months old.  As some of you may recall, we’ve had him since he was an estimated five weeks.  He’s a delight in many ways: mischievous and af…
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October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Today I shoutout my not-so-secret collaborator on the WW and FF!

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Let Me Sing Of…
Dappled Maximillians This week I want to sing out my too frequently overlooked collaborator on these Wednesday Wanderings and their younger sibling, the Friday Fragments. Who is this collaborator?&…
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October 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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And just when I was getting better, I got a little hoarse... But here's what I'm reading!

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FF: Moving Along
Cascabel Considers I’m still in the mending track, but doing better. Now for the usual reminder…  The Friday Fragments is not a book review column; it’s a list of what I’m reading and maybe a …
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October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Writing stuff in this one!

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Challenges Within Challenges
Challenges Among the Asters Yesterday’s mail brought me my author’s copies of the new Honorverse/Star Kingdom anthology: Challenges.  Although there have been other short stories set in these …
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October 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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What I'm reading this week, a health update, and a bit more chatty about things.

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FF: Got To Admit
Roary Reads To misquote the Beatles, got to admit, I’m not quite all better, which peeves me to no end.  However, I am definitely on the right course and hope to continue getting over whatever…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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For me, writing and gardening have a lot in common.

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To Harvest a Book
Fava and the Harvest To have a harvest, you need to plant, to tend.  This as true—even more true—about writing than it is about gardening. The photo above shows Garden Inspector in Chief, Fava O’Pi…
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September 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Good books are great medicine.

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FF: One Good Thing, I Guess
Cascabel (Now Six Months Old) Reads This week was not at all usual.  Monday was my birthday, so Jim and I went out.  Tuesday was filled with all sorts of appointments.  Wednesday, la…
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September 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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This week... Our local botanical garden has gotten amazing...

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Friendly and Flowers
Just Glorious This past week, to celebrate my birthday, Jim and I went to the local botanical gardens.  We’ve been visiting there since it was first opened, so it has a special element above a…
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September 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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I'm reading a new Tim Powers this week. It's not out yet, but for some authors I will get the ARC.

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FF: Different Landscape
Powers and Persephone Of the Big Five writer of Classic Mystery (Christie; Sayers; Allingham; Marsh; Tey), Josephine Tey is the least well-known by modern audiences, and certainly the most unusual.…
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September 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Took time to go to the State Fair this past weekend. Enjoyed VERY much!

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It’s Fair Weather, Friends!
Cool Cat With a Chill Ride Last weekend, Jim and I made our annual trip to the state fair with our friend, Chip.  We hit numerous art shows (Fine, Hispanic, Indian, Creative, School), supporte…
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September 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM