Happy Christmas, or otherwise. I hope for you it is restful.

Out here in my woods it is beautiful weather, and I've been industriously moving…

Aven ShoreDecember 25, 2023

Sweet relief: I spent far too long, physically spent at the end of a long day, trying different search term combinations to find a sidescroll space shooter

Aven ShoreDecember 11, 2023

What’s on my mind: Mental health. How it can be robbed from you. How it is rather fragile although we believe our state of being to be robust, to be “us”. In fact, our mental state can

Aven ShoreDecember 3, 2023

Well, I’m back.
I hiked the Canyon. We hiked the canyon. My brother and I went down the South Kaibab, across the bottom a bit, then…

Aven ShoreNovember 26, 2023

Last year I hiked the canyon the Saturday before the event. Alone, 30 days past a major surgery and the second day that I was able to get through a whole day without lying down. My 17" of sutures were still

Aven ShoreNovember 4, 2023

The end of the growing season: When what is done is and what wasn’t, isn’t, and there’s no longer anything to do about it. As usual, I grew a…

Aven ShoreOctober 22, 2023

Something (one) I still love: Marie Forleo . A little bit of flash, but a whole lot of wisdom. Abstruse note to self: “Have to make your own wins.” Surprising words of the week: propinquital , calid , recrudescent . There are

A fact that pleases me: Only six of seven high rises pretend not to have a 13th floor. I thought it was all of them!

Aven ShoreOctober 15, 2023

TWIL: What porcupines sound like when they're talking to their babies. OMG, it is the cutest thing ever.

Aven ShoreOctober 8, 2023

What I can't get enough of: Seaweed snacks. Mmmmm. Sesame. Salt! Cannot get enough! Clearly, I wants the iodine. I wants it!

Aven ShoreOctober 1, 2023

What I'm grateful for: That I can MOVE again. I have energy again; it returns. I skated. I went to the gym - twice! I scythed. Very grateful to have my energy creep back in palpable ways.

Aven ShoreSeptember 24, 2023

What I'm looking forward to: The Grand Canyon, 2023. Just like last year, I'm going to hike it the day before 20Books Vegas. Unlike last year, I won't be just 30 days post-major-surgery

Aven ShoreSeptember 17, 2023

What just happened: I went to DragonCon in Atlanta. And it was improbably restorative and sweet and refilling. I heard things I really needed to hear. It was lovely.

Aven ShoreSeptember 10, 2023

What I think is great: Chaunci.com A slick business website that's also personal. Mostly, it grabs me by the heart when I see someone doing what they are obviously, truly meant to be doing, and this website exemplifies that. Chaunci'

What I just discovered about myself: Decision fatigue. I know all about it, but I think I just learned that it is the biggest challenge of my daily life. I thrive on being serially single-minded. My life does not work well like that.

Aven ShoreAugust 27, 2023

TWIL (this week I learned): forgetting things when you walk into another room is a thing. A studied-by-science thing. Also, you can test cap refill on a dog or cat by pressing on their gums. They don't have nailbeds. That's two th

Productivity hack I'm leaning on: Productive Procrastination, and it's cousin, Productive Shirking...

Aven ShoreAugust 20, 2023

What I'm excited about: An upcoming AIC (Audiobook Industry Chat on Clubhouse) interview with narrators turned authors. Narrators seem inclined to write books. Imagine that! They tend to write WELL! Imagine! DragonCon. I'm goin

What I'm still in love with: WHB (Wim Hof Breathing). Recommended reading about hormetic stress, why it works, and how breathing is our one direct comms line to our autonomic nervous system:

Aven ShoreAugust 13, 2023

What I'm excited about recording: Sweet, vulnerable, human love, written so delicately and real that it ceases to matter what queer identity our characters have, it's just people loving people.

Aven ShoreAugust 6, 2023