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I went to the North Texas Hot Sauce Festival in October with my friend Morgan and we had a good conversation about how hot sauce helps him eat more slowly and mindfully. I want to do more of that as well. I also appreciated that the majority of the vendors grew and made their own…

CW: Animal death. I recently had to help a sick stray cat in my community end its suffering and cross the rainbow bridge. His name was Stripey, and he was kind of a jerk, but I still loved him, despite his aggression when I tried to pet him. He’s not the first cat I’ve helped…

I like to play some daily word games to get my brain juices flowing. Standard Wordle stopped intriguing me a while ago, but it gets a nod as being one of the OGs of the genre. Toddle In Toddle, you receive a small word and category and must determine the longer word or phrase. The…

I love cats, and sometimes I meet cats briefly and document the experience. Today it’s at the front of my mind because I’m at a cabin in East Texas to relax and write puzzles, and I met a friendly stray here. The cabin I’m in is named Andrew (after a grandfather of a staff member)…

I have a small basket of cooking amenities that I take when renting a cabin. It has a small spice rack I made from some glass vials and a makeup organizer. There’s a small pepper mill with mixed peppercorns, and I keep a separate jar of pink Himalayan salt, and there are four vials. I…

I wasn’t really planning to use this site for anything but as a base for my other blogs running on WP Multisite, but I wanted to share some of my recent processes and such around my notebook archives. Step 1 was to scan my notebooks. I’ve started with all my pocket notebooks that I could…

It’s honestly just a placeholder to get around some weird issues with WordPress Multisite. But maybe something else will go here eventually. Who knows?! In the meanwhile, head to Dave Goes The Distance to see what all Dave is working on these days.