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This journal may not be suitable for young children, old children, the religiously intolerant, the intolerant religious, or those who have issues with homoerotic fanfiction, the Judeo-Christian God, or my children.

I am easily amused. I am less easily irritated. I try to keep the good outweighing the bad.

Denizens of Marathon Manor, my home:
- me: my room is the Tower (or Stark Tower)
- Cedar: my beloved, my betrothed, my polyamorous partner -- their room is the Dungeon
- Batman: my roommate with the greatest tenure, the underdweller who inhabits the Batcave
- Son2: my middleborn child who lives in Mirkwood and nearly never wears shoes
- Son3: my lastborn child who is also an underdweller -- his room is the Fortress of Solitude
- Clover: my tiny dog (chin-pin) adopted in 2016
- Bailey: Cedar's mini-heeler adopted in 2020

Others I may have mentioned:
- Son1: my firstborn who no longer lives here
- KOP: the Kids' Other Parent, my ex-husband
- Princess: His wife

"I can be impressed - moved, even - by a woman's beauty, but I fail to make the connection between that and a need to do something to her. When you see a beautiful flower, you don't need to go up to it and lick it, do you?"
--Martin Poulter

"Friendship, if by friendship we understand that the affection for an individual which is measured singly by what we know of his worth, is one of the most exquisite gratifications, perhaps one of the most improving exercises, of a rational mind."
-- William Godwin

“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him? What did he get out of them?”
-- Orison Swett Marden