N. Frances Moritz (she/her)

Done before the first snow! *checks the weather forecast for the next week or so* Done well before the first snow! And, delightfully, done mulching for the season. For those of you following along at home, we went through abo…

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Personality Types As Music I discovered Sleeping At Last’s work by accident – a chance encounter on YouTube with the Enneagram project, which offers a different song for each of the nine Enneagram personality typ…

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Happy Samhain! Or happy Halloween, depending which you celebrate. Both is, of course, an option. As we wrap up the harvest season, at least those of us in northern climates that are rapidly moving towards winter,…

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I Have No Idea What This Is, But It’s Tasty I’m someone who’s spent a lot of time cooking from recipes and double- and triple-checking the instructions as I go, then slowly growing accustomed to and adapting them over time. And i…

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Another fabulous Dorkstock! As I mentioned last week, it was time for Dorkstock again. This is always a fun weekend for me, not the least of which is because I get to play and run games like Cartoon Frag and Life-Sized Kill D…

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An Endless Supply of Tabletop Role-Playing Games It’s been a very gaming weekend, so I was reminded of a Tumblr blog I follow, which is specifically dedicated to TTRPGs, and the vast breadth of them available. Most especially, they take req…

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Gamehole Plush Monster Island Every year, John Kovalic designs a new plush for Gamehole Con, the parent convention that hosts Dorkstock. A couple years ago, it occurred to me that I could combine those plush into a Monster Isla…

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When I first injured my shoulder, I tried crocheting left-handed. It was... weird. But artistically, that could be interesting.

Hey, What Species Is That Paragraph? My latest minor obsession is a blog I’ve just found on Tumblr this week, which responds to all sorts of posts with the posts’ own letters for gene sequencing (G, C, T, and A, in whateve…

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Mulberry trimming Most years, after the mulberries are done for the season, I do a quick trim of the branches I can reach that are extending too far over the lawn. A couple key phrases in that sentence were “m…

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Comedy, Poems, and Comedy Poems Long have I followed Elle Cordova, first on Instagram, and more recently on YouTube! (Links here on out will be for YouTube.) They have a whole plethora of bite-sized works and a handful of longer …

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Temperature blanket update and ideas The temperature blanket continues, of course, with another three months of warm weather added in the latest six rows. In this photo, that’s the left side, which has the occasional yellow (65-…

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Yi Xian: Cultivator Card Game This game is pretty. That was the first thing I noticed, once a friend convinced me to play. The art is colorful and softly lit, the music is light and often ‘peppy meditative’… and the…

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The return of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show In a whirlwind of political controversy, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, a late-night talk show, was suddenly suspended “indefinitely” last week, then just as suddenly restarted, airing ag…

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Screenshot of two advent calendars on Amazon: survival kit and "DND" dice, both inexplicably labelled as "for men".

Look, the sexism is bad enough on the survival kit advent calendars... why is the D&D one labeled as "for men boys"?

Hard Boundaries To Soft Problems What is it like to live at the border of time zones? Where “six o’clock” means something different where you live than it does ten minutes away? As someone who lives pretty solidl…

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The Return of Mount Mulchmore As I mentioned recently, we needed a bit more mulch before the winter weather hits. After a couple weeks, I cancelled my Chip Drop request – I can always enter a new one – and bought so…

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Tiny Epic Dinosaurs These are the itty-bittiest dinosaurs you’ve ever held in hand. Lying them down and standing them up again on the boards is a minor dexterity exercise. And they’re so cute. You’ve…

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Feline goodness The internet has been fairly vile this week, with videos of two different murders that occurred in the United States circulating: a violent stabbing in North Carolina and a targeted shooting at a c…

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When I received my Master's degree, the presenter butchered the non-Anglo names, including Hispanic ones. *In Miami, Florida*. I was appalled.

Old Traditions, New Traditions, and Somewhere In Between For as long as I can remember, our household has had a rule: when a doctor’s appointment involves needles, we get milkshakes. It was a successful distraction/treat/hydration technique, and ma…

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Are they chocolate covered?

Mount Mulchmore One our perpetual summer projects is acquiring and distributing mulch around the yard, to help with weed suppression and generally improve the appearance of the yard. Earlier in the spring, I had a…

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Birds Around The World Ok, so it’s a fairly loose use of the term “around the world.” What we’ve got are live bird cams, courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and I’m defining “a…

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Is no news good news in this scenario?

The Paramount Theatre presents Come From Away Come From Away just opened at the Paramount Theatre, and it is, as expected, fabulous. It does, however, need warning labels if you are unfamiliar with the plot, and in some cases, even if you are …

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Magickal Ailments Hex Effects: Or, Side Effects of the Amateur Alchemists. Officially. Or, unofficially, When Family Rivalries Can Only Be Settled By Giving Your Relative an Evil Alter Ego! Amongst other miserable m…

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Anxiety exists for a reason. In this particular instance, I’m referring to my anxiety related to nests inhabited by stinging insects, particularly wasps. You may recall a couple years ago, I had a terrible Saturday morni…

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Wine, Art, and Trees My brain is a little fried this evening, having spent the midday heat (and my goodness was it hot) outdoors. I don’t regret it, though! The Morton Arboretum’s Wine and Art Walk was well…

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