Hibernation Half Month begins.
Karen Herkes Karen Herkes

Hibernation Half Month begins.

And so begins Hibernation Half-month, my favorite part of the holiday season. From Christmas Eve through Twelfth Night, I reside in introvert heaven. Let me ‘sprain.

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Nearly Midwinter report from my couch
Karen Herkes Karen Herkes

Nearly Midwinter report from my couch

Nearly-midwinter update on my various doings. There’s rather a lot going on, especially considering how much of my time I am still spending on the couch.

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Hello, world, post-appendix edition
Karen Herkes Karen Herkes

Hello, world, post-appendix edition

Still here, free from that pesky appendix, and only lost a small extra bit of intestine in the process. Good times. Read on for the update. No gory details, yes, of course there are cat pics.

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My Other Blogs

  • Dawnrigger Archive

    Posts 2013-2023, imported from dawnrigger.com, some of which were imported in turn from Blogger. Broken links, lost images, and weird formatting artifacts abound, but the words are not lost.

  • brown cat posing proudly on the empty middle shelf of a black bookcase

    The Quarterly Catchall

    The archive of my Offical Author Newsletter, which has changed names and formats several times, but seems to be settling down at last. Old news is sometimes interesting, and there are cat pics.

Be a potato.

" Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."

Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

art credit: Dex Greenbright