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This is fun: NPR just came out with an interactive, cross-genre list of over four hundred books they recommend from 2022.

Books We Love : NPR

Whatever you’re into, you’ll likely find it here. The list includes everything from science fiction to science writing, to biographies to kids’ books to poetry, cookbooks, humor, history, sports, music and more.

I’ve read some of these books but not most, by any means, even in my preferred genres. The site also includes recommendations from the past decade, for a total of more than 3200 options. Just in case you make it through this year’s list!

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Onward!

Today, much day job work, which takes up both actual time and mental space. Post lunch, I took a pass at a couple of drabbles but they weren’t ready, started a couple of nonfiction essays but they didn’t quite gel, looked through my files for a quote but didn’t like any of them, then tossed in the towel and went back to my work-related to do list.

Onward!

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When it comes right down to it, I want to encourage people to find possibilities, to see paths to improvement. Everywhere. In everything.

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I’m in the middle of a last-minute day job project, waiting in my darkening office for external input before I can wrap up and make dinner. So today, a bit of bad haiku:

Darkness and hunger,
Impatience for what comes next.
Expectant and alive.

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What would you do if you could do anything?

The future will not be any% glitchless by Andrea Kriz in Nature’s Futures

I’m working from home. Or trying to. Since the news broke, it just doesn’t seem like there’s much point. Seeing each other on the screen. Or in person. It’s all the same, right?

Ever since we found out the Universe is a simulation.

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Need a bite of encouragement? Ever wonder how gyoza are made, or how an architect might make it into the Michelin guide for his dumplings? All this and more, including dough “as tender as an earlobe” await your edification and enjoyment!

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I didn’t get everything done today that I’d planned. I did make apple pie, though, and that’s not nothing.

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

― Carl Sagan

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It’s easy to feel small when you’re young, old, alone, overworked and overwhelmed, tired or broke. That doesn’t mean you are.

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My Wordle story has run into a minor hiccup: After a couple of weeks, I realized that the main characters should probably be gender swapped. That means going back and reworking what I have so far, and rethinking how the story should move forward. I’ve run a test version past the source of the Wordle story seeds and she approves, so yay.

Now I just need to make it happen.

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Exactly one year ago today I decided to do a little time travel. You may remember I mentioned a site called FutureMe, an easy and fun (and free) way to write yourself a letter to be delivered at some time in the future. 

My letter arrived this morning, delivering a boost from NaNoWriMos past.

Thanks, Past Me, I will.

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