Love you forever, Doodlebug, Cuddlebug, Love Bug, Bugs, Bugsy, Bugs Bunny, Bubba, Bubs, Boodle, Honeybun, Goofus, Turkey Pot Pie, Sunshine, Silly Gooser, Pumpkin, Pumpkin Face, and of course, always, Buddy.

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I am so sad to share that I said goodbye this weekend to the inimitable, goofy, brave, entirely beloved Brian Chidi Holmes, who I adopted on St. Patrick’s Day 2018.

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The 8-Ball is finished and I’ll be sad to relinquish it, but it’s a gift for someone. Still, it makes me happy that I can look at this and identify so many poems from mere snippets such as “everlasting Roof,” “so sweet” “The difference” “Accept loss forever” and “To meet as far this” . . .

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Good morning, Bluesky. “It is other people — anonymous figures glimpsed in the subway or in waiting rooms — who reveal our true selves through the interest, the anger or the shame that they send rippling through us.” Late to Annie Ernaux, excited for the glorious reading ahead. Photo from 10/25

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Good morning, Bluesky. Just over 5k words into the new novel and I’ve dropped THREE bodies. Very speedy for me. But the real mystery is something Tess is withholding, in the spirit of what John Irving does in Garp, in the chapter The World According to Marcus Aurelius.

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