Monthly Archive: October 2018

Tuesday morning, not at school.  Packing the car for a trip across the province (okay, not the whole province, but it feels like it,) to take care of my mom who is just getting out of convalescent care with a brand new knee. Pack up, gas up, hit the road. The brooding starts before I leave the gas station. I can only stay a…
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  Everybody who loves their pet ends up here, don’t they? My partner Mariann is cleaning up the dinner dishes and I am taking Gavin for his evening constitutional – he didn’t want his food this morning and was lethargic, not himself.  He had pancreatitis this summer and I’ve been worried about him since then. I lean down to clean up after he’s done…
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You guys! I’ve been holed up all weekend, writing Date Square Dharma and I need some conversation!  (With, you know, real people, not just the people who live in my head…) This week will be your questions – next week will be my answers! Leave a question you have in comments or email your question to patti@pattiwritesbooks.com. Ask me anything – about The Kitchen…
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Just between you and me, I’m a bit crabby these days. If I’m not at the vet with a vomiting dog, then I’m at my own doctor saying, “I’m getting these weird hives…” ( To which my lovely doctor replied, “Oh, sweetie. That’s not hives, that’s shingles.”) Which are exactly as much fun as advertised, let me tell you. It’s all been a bit…
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