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While it’s been over a week since she left L.A. County Jail Olive View/UCLA County Hospital, Kris has not been getting out since her surgery. She can’t even get out of our apartment complex alone because the fire doors are so heavy and she’s not supposed to lift or push […]
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That Which Holds the Image of a Caretaker Becomes a Caretaker
Hello everyone, Vincent Reinhart here. Dennis has been busy taking care of Kris this week, so I’m filling in for him. Kris came home from the hospital this past Monday, and Dennis took the week off from work to take care of her. Kris is on a liquid diet until […]
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What Did She do?
What she did was have a hiatal hernia that needed repair. That’s a hernia (reminds me of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Ow1nlafOg ) in her diaphragm. Her stomach and pancreas were already pushing their way up into her left lung area. The danger was if part of her intestine got caught up […]
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Paths of Writing
With Kris being out of work (see last week’s blog), she has been pursuing other means of income. One of them is writing in various forms. She is using her Patreon account to pursue her love of writing and generally creative, fannish insanity she (and we) have done together over […]
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My Wife’s Second Husband
Last week’s blog was sort of a non-blog. Too many things had happened that week, predominantly, the death of a close friend of ours, Frank J. Waller. He was a friend and also Kris’ caregiving client. So, we lost a friend and Kris lost her job. Two traumas for the […]
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Letting Music Shape the World of The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles
Writing is such an individual journey with so many individual styles. Take music, for example. When I write, I need quiet. Music is too distracting for me. Music may change moods in the middle when I need to concentrate on one mood for my character. Or it may stay in […]
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Hit by the Sledgehammer of Inspiration
How it All Starts I start off my Thursday afternoon as I always do. I drop off my client to his therapist and hit the local Yogurtland to grab my favorite chocolate obsession and do some writing. I used to think that when I started working part-time, I would have […]
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