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About Thistle

Agender empty-nester filling my time with writing, cats, books, travel, and photography. They/them.

Saying Goodbye to Petunia

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Thistle

Today, we have an emotional goodbye. Little Petunia came home with us on December 27th. I wasn’t planning on bringing in another foster in 2022. Dexter and Deedee went into the shelter for surgery and adoption in mid-November, and at … Continue reading →

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January 2023 in Review

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Thistle

January was lovely. Honestly, I’m not used to January being a mostly-good month. My depression cycles – which have remained fairly consistent since I was about 13 or 14 years old – usually involve me having a great first 2-3 … Continue reading →

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The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Thistle

Tesla Crane is on her honeymoon, a cruise to Mars. She revels in her anonymity with a spoofed ID and appearance, no bodyguards to surround her and give her away. But only a few days into what’s meant to be … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – Brain Offline

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Thistle

This morning, I’m meant to be driving out to Inks Lake, my favorite state park, with a friend to go hiking up to the waterfalls. Only we had to cancel because suddenly there’s meant to be storms and pouring rain, … Continue reading →

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Fall Whimsy…in January

Posted on January 27, 2023 by Thistle

Back in November, my friends and I had planned an autumn photoshoot at the Big Tree, as a celebration of fall, nature, and majestic places. Obviously, that didn’t work out, and due to fire, we ended up going to a … Continue reading →

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Good for a Girl, by Lauren Fleshman (audio)

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Thistle

Subtitled: A Woman Running in a Man’s World Fleshman is a retired world-class professional runner, and this book is both her memoir and a treatise on the way women are approached and treated in the sports and running world. In … Continue reading →

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TNR: Unicorn

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Thistle

Two weeks back, Jason and I managed to catch and TNR a little calico girl we called Feather. Feather had brought with her two male cats, King and Unicorn. While King remains elusive, spreading himself around and getting food from … Continue reading →

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Sunday Coffee – a quest for new art (Please help!!)

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Thistle

This week, Jason and I painted my bedroom. It was still mostly this horrible brown color except the one wall we had to fix when we redid the windows a couple years ago. In repainting, we also added a shelf … Continue reading →

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The Book Eaters, by Sunyi Dean

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Thistle

Excerpt from the book jacket: Out on the Yorkshire moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book’s content after eating it… Devon is part of the Family, an old … Continue reading →

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January Self Portrait: Gutter Glitter

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Thistle

Part of my goals this year is to move forward with photography (in many different aspects). With a nod toward that goal, I decided to emulate a TT creator who chose to do a self portrait each month of 2022. … Continue reading →

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