january 2026
hello! a lot of things happened this month, and I hope you are taking care of yourselves and your communities. this is the time of year that really energizes...
december 2025
Hey! We did it! We survived 2025! I hope everyone had nice and/or uneventful holidays. My Christmas was about as lovely as it has ever been, and then I lay...
november 2025
hello my friends. the bleak weather is here, and it is my friend. i hope it is also raining where you are. i have had extreme anxiety for much of the month,...
october 2025
happy fall to you and to me! it has actually felt fall-like here this month, an exciting departure, and i have been glorying in the crisp chill in the air...
september 2025
Is anyone else as shocked by the end of this month as I am? How can it possibly be here already. Not that I’m not ready for October, mind you, just as always...
august 2025
hello my friends! my life has finally settled down enough that i was able to get some time in doing my favourite summer hobby: playing video games in a cool,...
july 2025
what ho, friendlies! this has been a big month for catching up with friends, being sweaty, and discovering really good mystery series. on a personal note, my...
june 2025
hello from the far side of the hill! i turned 40 on saturday, and celebrated by asking my loved ones to travel to my home city and dress up as murder mystery...
may 2025
bonjour mes amis! I apologize for being a little late, but in my defense I spent the latter half of the month traveling through the south of France and have...
april 2025
did april not really happen for anyone else? i swear i blinked and here we were. sometime during that instant, i unpacked my kitchen, got the laundry room...
march 2025
Finally, after much waiting and worry and sleepless nights, my new 105-year-old house was ready for occupation this month, so i moved! it was horrible. it is...
february 2025
Greetings, friends. I have been having a bad brain time, a result of which is that I have been spending my every waking hour tearing through queer cozy...
january 2025
hello and welcome to 2025! is it “happy”? so far, not really! a new year to us all, anyway. catch-up: here are a couple of things i meant to write about in...
december 2024
we’ve done it! we’ve reached the final month of 2024. merry happy etc to us all. i’m coming to you live from the pacific coast, where it stopped raining long...
november 2024
some big news: i bought a house! it’s 104 years old and needs a fair amount of work. if you notice the number of books i’ve managed to read in a month...
october 2024
hello! this month was full of very stressful real life stuff, so I didn’t engage with much that was new to me (although I did spend many hours playing every...
september 2024
it’s me! your pal door. let’s get to it! game: Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy (2008). i’ve resumed my nancyposting! i’ve actually already played...
august 2024
we’ve done it, friends. we’ve made it to the end of august. theoretically, autumn will follow shortly and i’ll have a somewhat functional brain again....
july 2024
i wrote this one early. i’m learning from my mistakes (this will never happen again). i loved just about everything i read or watched or played this month,...
june 2024
hello! this missive is belated on account of my birthday is at the end of june, after which i need time to recover. naturally, i am not capable of writing a...