September 2026

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.” — Stephen King

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July 2026

“Morning brings flood to verbena, planted
by some fool who thinks July forgets
the past.” — James Welch

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June 2026

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda

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May 2026

May was full of color and flowers and art. There was lots of sushi, and the hunt for the best Marg-and-Nachos-Combo in the valley continues. I harvested my potatoes. I grew exactly two and they were nothing to write home about unfortunately! I’m painting almost every single day and walking dogs both old and new. […]

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Vegas 2026

“The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place–to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once–then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.” — Colson Whitehead

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March 2026

“They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a March evening. Very still and mild it was, wrapped in a great, white, brooding silence — a silence which was yet threaded through with many little silvery sounds which you could hear if you hearkened as much with your soul as your ears.” — L.M. Montgomery

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