Christie Meierz

I had a tiny-tiny like that once -- 3.5 pound Yorkie, a veritable little Napolean. Best dog I ever had. Gone almost 20 years and I still miss him.

I don't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last.
~Rachel Vail, _If We Kiss_

I'm behinder than you are - haven't seen it yet.

Is it any good?

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Cover of Outcaste by Christie Meierz. A man and a woman sitting on an alien beach.

So this happened. Winners will be announced July 16th.
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Shout out to my wonderful editor Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social we did it again!

He is the cheese to my macaroni.
~Juno [film]

One for every significant location I've ever been.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life -- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain?
~George Eliot, _Adam Bede_

Pic of [Secret] Jewish Space Laser Corps Goyim Squad Enamel Pin Text below pin reads: 50% of profits go toward defeating meshugena QAnon supporters running for Congress

Look what my husband got me!

A small press can also just frankly get bought by another small press, and how things go after that is anyone's guess.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.
~Sherman Alexie

Love is a friendship set to music.
~E. Joseph Cossman
(co-developer of the ant farm and the spud gun)

Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves.
~Wes Angelozzi

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous human to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
~Aristotle

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
~David Viscott

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~Eric Hoffer

The Husband is playing with the crockpot.

The house smells wonderful and it's making me hungry.

But whatever is in that crockpot, it won't be ready to eat for another Two. And a Half. Hours.

😭

It's 51F, it's Cloudy, and I finished revisions on _The Song of Lynadria_ yesterday. <golf clap>
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I declare that today is Author's Day Off. Messing around on Steam is on the table. So is spending the day reading. It will probably end up a combination of both.

How's by you?

Miss Myrtle the Hurricane Cat just wants pets.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
~Dalai Lama

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
~Rabbi Harold Kushner

Bride Christie with new husband, in the church, backlit. 1985

Christie's husband on their wedding day, 1985.

Christie on her wedding day, 1985

40 years ago today, this happened.

I've always enjoyed it.

Then again, I fall asleep in MRI machines. Enclosure feels safe.

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
~Lao Tzu

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
~Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

That looks *really* interesting.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.
~William Blake

Picture of a misty woods, with the words "Would you maybe like to meet up somewhere in the woods and just scream? We could get coffee after." Attributed to Avellinofarms.

Me in the dentist's office: I should probably try to get that bloodwork the cardiologist wants done before we go home.

<Husband plays with phone>

Husband: The nearest University lab is... across the street.

Me: <sigh>

<returns home a few vials of blood lighter>

I've had better days...

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.
~Richard E. Feynman