DeAnna Knippling

Tampa Zoo…Feeling “fine”…ChatGPT AI…BigBug Adventures du jour! Ray and I went to the Tampa Zoo yesterday. It’s set up VERY well! But, alas, eventually I ran out of people juice, and we left before dark so we didn’t get to see much of the holiday lights. The day before yesterday, I was *feeling* fine but […]

A pome for insecurity. Cleaning out emails, I found a poem I wrote on one of the days where I was horribly stuck. Worked. … Dear selfWe are insecure today;It is ugly. Brutal grinding fills our stomach.Not hunger. A millMade of wood, grinding itself to sawdust. Today: every cruel thing I say to meIs a

Holidays…Ray goes nuts on potatoes…watching videos as weirdos…stuff vs. experiences…reread on favorite manga, Fruits Basket. Adventures du jour! I took the last few days off and didn’t work on fiction or do any business-related activities. Inbox = disaster. Probably I’d be better off using the time I’m going to spend writing this in starting to

Attack of distractions – letting go of my psych doc – what Floridians think of as “cold” – dance: shifting weight and balance. Adventures du jour! I am struggling to concentrate on writing fiction today: All the yoga. All the difficult books. Worked on secret project for an hour. Wrote for two hours on a

Story done, mental crash – the ideal hair stylist – a Ray day in Gulfport, FL – candied jalapenos – the perfect book Adventures du jour! Yesterday was supposed to be “a day off” but really wasn’t, and today I’m going to crash whether I like it or not, I guess. Yesterday: I had three

Isometric exercises…agonist/antagonist muscles…writing process: using others’ expertise…AI and tech drama…liking yourself vs. bragging. Adventures du jour! Isometric exercises: the results are promising. So promising, in fact, that they have spurred me to take the morning off yoga and have a minor moral collapse so I could do a Panera bagel run. I am sore and

Adventures du jour! I’m making crystalized ginger for some lemon bar mischief later. Today’s mischief: leftover ginger liquid, sugar, gin, and tonic. It’s spicy enough that I’m pretty sure I’ll regret this later. I could just BUY the crystalized ginger, but a) that means Trader Joe’s during the holiday season, and, more importantly, b) I’ve

Adventures du jour! Passed a test last night; feeling rather proud of myself today, if somewhat stubborn. More stubborn than most people. More stubborn than usual. Ornery? Obstinate? Perseverant? Intractable. Yesterday I finally got caught up on posting the “adventures du jour” to Substack (a newsletter-like company), then posted a note about it on my

Adventures du jour! A good day: –Ray told me last night that she’d hidden a second set of googly eyes about the house and I found them! Then set up a photo for her for proof. (She missed the photo and says that I have not yet found ALL of them. There is YET ANOTHER

Adventures du jour! Last night I spent most of the time hanging out with Ray. We played Left4Dead, a cooperative shooter game that *really* enforces cooperative play for greater success, and we both drank one of my random gin concoctions. (I’d accidentally picked up diet tonic water; when I say I’m my own worst enemy,