Sustaining Joys
The baby nephew turned two this month. His dad made him a buttermilk vanilla cake with sour cream chocolate frosting. I made a gluten-free chocolate chip...
Seattle, WorldCon, and the Cat Cafe
Cat washing herself placidly in a cat cafe. Okay, it’s been a few months. I apologize for that. July, August and the beginning of September were a whirlwind....
34 and Counting
I turned 34 this month. Ended up blogging about it: https://priyajsridhar.com/34-lucky-beginnings. The cake in the photo was for my younger brother’s...
Back from the Nebulas
Mural right across from the Marriott in downtown Kansas City Going to Kansas City made me nervous. Besides the state of Missouri having some questionable...
The Way Parrots Sleep
I’ve lived in Miami for all my life and have seen parrots for most of it. Parrot Jungle, a miniature zoo for birds that later became Jungle Island, featured...
Relics
Remaking out of the old. So. It’s been a few months. And it’s not like I didn’t write, more so that I didn’t know what to say on here. I couldn’t be...
Little Joys and Why We Fight
I meant to post this a month ago. But life got in the way. And it seems that my original paragraph was not saved here. So I will do my best to recreate it. A...
Floating Doors
Christmas and Halloween in an airport No self-promo links today, folks. It doesn’t feel appropriate. Sorry. I wasn’t going to write anything. Because, what...
Travels to Colder Nights
Hello all, Multiverse Con had a new hotel! In Atlanta, people gathered at the Hilton in Peachtree. It’s not as far from the airport even though it was quite...
Ups. And Downs
This month has had its ups. And its downs. I sent in edits for an anthology horror story around the theme of AIR for a diaspora anthology, SILK & SINEW. In...
Post-Con Thoughts
Glasgow has very efficient train systems. Once I understood the directions on how to get from Queens to Partick (NOT Patrick as I found out), it wasn’t too...
Two Months
My friend Bettina is great at cross-stitching. A few years ago, she made a beautiful homage to Steven Universe and Undertale, both fandoms we adore. This...
Remembering Small Steps
I was looking through my phone to find photos that would accompany this newsletter. This one is a month old, from when I was walking around Pasadena to get...
Pleasant Surprises
Copies of my series Powered at the Nebulas So May. It was… exciting. And brought a lot of curveballs. June was a new month, and I hoped the only surprises...
What We Have in Common with Horse Statues
When I was visiting a good friend in South Dakota last month, we went to Hill City. It had a dinosaur museum, some good chocolate, and this horse statue. If...
A Not-So Hostile Takeover: Eurovision by Laura Jane Diaz de Arce
For the past few weeks, I have been wracking my brain trying to figure out what I could write about in this hostile takeover newsletter swap. I could take...
21 Years of A Working Oven
A sign of what would come. Our family oven has decided to give up the ghost. I realized something was wrong when it was taking a while to heat up dinner,...
Rise of the Woodpeckers
The woodpeckers are out in full force, a sign that spring has come. They may have a territorial battle with the green parrots, who have also laid claim to...
Changes and Editing News
Life is full of changes. The old veggie burger place ten minutes away is now a One Piece restaurant. I visited it today and bought a boba soda. (Really...
January and February 2024
I was looking for photos of my dad. He liked taking photographs before the age of digital camera, . This one came up, of him and my mom in the 80s. They were...