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Calorie Burn: Midnight vs. Morn

29JanuarySuzanne2 CommentsHome in the Rookery

With travel and swim season ahead and the best of new year’s intentions behind, I’ve come out of hibernation to trim off a fewÂ pounds. As always, this process is full of choices.Â Do I really want that chocolate cake?Â Even if it means an extra hour on my stationary rower?Â Shall I skip the workout

A Twist of Perspective

23JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery

A month or two ago I took a quick look online to see what prices I could find for an upcoming trip, and choked.Â Tickets I used to get in the $200 dollar range were upwards of $400Â with less than idealÂ departure times. Since we didn’t know exactly when we’d be flying IÂ set the search aside.Â

Public vs. Private Schooling

22JanuarySuzanne5 CommentsHome in the Rookery, Rumblings

We’re hunting around the area for a good private school.Â With a plethora of options, it ought to be easy but is in fact a difficult deciscion.Â One factor complicating it for us is that our children are very different in their strengths and weaknesses, yet we’re hoping to put them in the same school.Â

We Have Snow!

18JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery

Our first snow fall in North Carolina.Â It’s only a skiff (you can see the grass through it in most places) but schools were all closed so we bundled up and did our best to slide and build snow men.Â By gathering all the snow from 2-3 yards the neighborhood kids were able to build

Ferret Optimism

16JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Uncategorized

One thing I love about ferrets, they always believe there’s something fascinating about to happen; always know they can do it, know matter how suicidal the leap may look;Â eternal optimists. They’d probably makeÂ exceptional writers.Â

On Writing Fantasy

12JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Writing

I just finished the final for my Christian Fantasy class, which was split about 70/30 Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.Â I found the class highly enjoyable–after all, a large portion of the homework was re-reading the Rings books–but I also found that taking the class bolstered my confidence in the worth of fantasy as a genre.

Shortcut Angst

11JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Rumblings

Why do shortcuts never work out?Â I don’t normally even attemptÂ them–my track recordÂ is so bad. But this morning I caved to temptation. I was running aÂ minuteÂ or twoÂ late in droppingÂ my daughter off at preschool and hitting all the lights red.Â I came to another red light, from which my usual route went straight.Â To my right

Mystery Man

10JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, The Bookshelf, Uncategorized

I’ve discovered a new love. No, not that kind!Â The mystery genre caught my attention for a few years in my tweens but I have’t visited it since.Â Â Then over the holidays I was desperate for a book and feeling like something different, so when I dug through my book stack and found Dead Cert, a

Fatally Flawed Snow

4JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery, Just for Laughs, Uncategorized

Our five-yeal old has been pining for snow this winter, as she hasn’t seen any since she was two.Â Today as I opened the big freezer we keep in the garage she noticed the frost coating the wall and asked if she could have some of this ‘snow’. She touched various bits, and got a

Grabbing the New Year with Both Hands

3JanuarySuzanneHome in the Rookery

I’m back.Â After a great Christmas (though hectic) and a germ-ridden New Years (though quiet) I’ve officially taken myself off the absentee list. Time to pounce on the opportunities of the newly-hatched year before they grow into smoking dragons and tearing wyverns that shred me at the first sign of weakness.Â The only way to

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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