[As usual, three weeks lag here, if you aren’t reading this on my Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/blazeward). If you’d like your news fresher, and the monthly Anti-Stodgy/Redneck Chef newsletter, all I ask is a buck to help keep the lights on around here.]

Really short bit of news today, because I’m currently out of town. We drive from Seattle to Colorado Springs M/T and are at Superstars Writing Conference (https://superstars2026.sched.com/mysessions). Gonna be a little crazy, but a lot of fun and looking forward to teaching this week and meeting people.

We’ll return to the regularly scheduled programming with some extra fun new with the Anti-Stodgy/Redneck Chef news in a week. If you aren’t following, that’s your loss.

Cheers

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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