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About Thistle

Queer, neurospicy, chronically longwinded oversharer. 40s; they/them. ✍️📷🐈📚🥾🇩🇪🏳️‍🌈😇💖🐍

A Decade of Blogging

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Thistle

Technically, my ten-year-blogoversary was yesterday, but I didn’t get my act together in time to post this, so I’m a bit late. I don’t mind. I started my blog on Valentine’s Day, in the wee early hours of the morning … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Flu

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Thistle

It was bound to happen. The flu season is bad this year and Jason was the only one of us to get a flu shot yet. We were complacent and silly. And last Saturday, while Ambrose was at a friend’s … Continue reading →

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman (audio)

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Thistle

Eleanor Oliphant is a peculiar woman. She has little to no social skills, she speaks so precisely that it borders on absurd, and she is completely detached from emotion. Around her thirtieth birthday, life begins to change. She and a … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – Cultivate a Life You Love

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Thistle

Please note: this post was pre-drafted before my grandmother’s health declined. I’m still allowing it to post, but I will be very slow to respond to comments. *** Back in the fall, an article on personal happiness popped up in … Continue reading →

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The Girl on the Velvet Swing, by Simon Baatz (audio)

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Thistle

Subtitled: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Trigger warning: sexual violence Spoiler warning: These are actual events, so I will discuss details. In the early 1900s, Evelyn Nesbit was raped by architect Stanford White, who … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – On Saying Goodbye

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Thistle

Thursday morning, I got word that my grandmother’s health was in rapid decline. She’d been in poor health for a few weeks with pneumonia, but now the hospice nurse said her body was shutting down. I went straight over to … Continue reading →

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January in Review

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Thistle

Please note: This post was pre-drafted before my grandmother’s health began to decline (more on this soon). I’m allowing it to post still, but I will be slow to respond to comments etc. *** I didn’t do monthly recaps last … Continue reading →

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Wellness Wednesday – A Look at Up Til Now

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Thistle

Hello everyone! As it’s a new year and (hopefully) the beginning of a new journey for me, I wanted to go back over a bit of my history up to this point. Those of you who have known me for … Continue reading →

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Yoga With Cats!

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Thistle

Yoga with cats should have been on my bucket list, but it wasn’t. After all, I get plenty of yoga with cats at home. Nimi is a big fan of yoga, often lying by my side and wrapping herself around … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Recommendations?

Posted on January 28, 2018 by Thistle

Two Sundays ago, I talked about bookish slump I’m kinda in. But I realized since then, there are some books and other things that are holding my attention. They’re (for the most part) stuff I don’t have as much experience … Continue reading →

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