The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford

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The words of Valerie Griswold-Ford
  • The Books
    • The Dark Horseman Novels
      • Not Your Father’s Horseman
        • Prologue to Not Your Father’s Horseman
      • Dark Moon Seasons
        • Chapter 1 of Dark Moon Seasons
      • Last Rites
        • Chapter One – A Loss of Confidence
    • Non-Fiction Books
    • Short fiction
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Weekly news roundup – The Remicade week in review

By Val June 24, 2018 advent, book reviews, brian, crocheting, goals, metrics, pendragon, personal, sca, time management, to-do, weekly updates, worldbuilding, writing No Comments

This week was a bit of this and that, but this seems to be a good headline for this post for the nonce.   My week got thrown for a…

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Weekly news roundup – the Father’s Day edition

By Val June 18, 2018 advent, brian, ghost hunting, goals, metrics, pendragon, personal, to-do, weekly updates No Comments

Okay, so it’s a day late, but hey, I spent Father’s Day with the best of dads, mine. We went and saw Solo, which was super fun and I highly…

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Weekly news roundup

By Val June 10, 2018 advent, brian, heraldry, metrics, patreon, personal, reading, weekly updates No Comments

You know, I think one of the things I miss most about Diane Rehm retiring is that now my Fridays do not consist of two hours of the Weekly News…

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(writing/personal) The cycle of grief isn’t linear

By Val January 14, 2018 brian, crocheting, depression, food, personal, proofreading, sca, writing 4 Comments

There are a lot of books about how grief works, and they all talk about there are different stages and you progress through them. And maybe some people do actually…

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(personal/writing/advent) 2018 – my first full year alone

By Val January 4, 2018 advent, brian, depression, food, health, patreon, personal, proofreading, time management, to-do, Uncategorized, website stuff, writing No Comments

I swear this year is going to be better. I won’t let it be the same way it was last year. I won’t.   But things are going to have…

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Thinking about changes

By Val November 16, 2017 advent, brian, goals, nanowrimo, personal, writing No Comments

Most people think about changes this time of year. It’s the turning of the seasons, I guess: as the world settles down to renew itself during the cold winter months…

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Learning to live in a new normal

By Val October 29, 2017 advent, brian, goals, personal, writing 1 Comment

It’s been a difficult year. I feel like every time I sit down to write something on this blog, it’s a variation on that theme. I used to not understand…

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Dear Brian

By Val July 5, 2017 brian 1 Comment

Dear Brian,   It’s July now. The air is hot, and the beach is calling to me, the way it called to us. I haven’t been yet, mostly because I…

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Dear Brian,

By Val April 12, 2017 brian No Comments

 Dear Brian,   I kind of lost it this morning. I found the garb you wore to the last event we went to, and it still smelled like you, and…

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(writing/personal) Updates of all kinds

By Val April 9, 2017 advent, brian, depression, dreamwidth, patreon, pendragon, personal, secret project, writing 1 Comment

 Today is a writing day, and that’s a good thing. I need to get back to a routine before I go back to work in a month, and I need…

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