Lori Duff Writes
My husband and I recently celebrated our twenty-sixth wedding anniversary. That’s a long time. It’s not half my life, but it’s darn close. I’m aware of the age of the Earth, though it’s hard for me to conceptualize that many years. It’s really hard for me to conceptualize the Earth existing longer than I have…
According to that pop psychology book I haven’t read, the five love languages are Allegedly what that means is that different people give and receive love in different ways. If someone isn’t ‘speaking’ love to you in the way you want to hear it, you might not receive the message. Some people aren’t big…
I’ve always been a rules girl. A law and order girl[1], if you will. I believe deep in my heart that the only thing standing between us and complete anarchy is the societal agreement that we’ll all obey a set of basic rules. In theory, the American set-up is brilliant. The checks and balances of…
For a while, when I was a teenager, I was obsessed with the idea of color. I got it into my head that there was no way to know if we all perceived color the same way, that maybe the way I saw green was the way you saw orange, and that would explain why…
I’m being bullied by marketing departments. I know that’s what it is. I know it’s not actually the critters they send with over-large eyes and disapproving expressions, but I’m unusually susceptible to such things. Guilt is one of the languages I’m fluent in. I want to go to Italy. I want to start at one…
Let me introduce you to my new favorite social activity: the Silent Book Club. It’s such an amazing concept for us introverts, the ones who aren’t anti-social, but who prefer parallel play to yapping and quiet to noise. Here’s the concept. Like minded people get together in a coffee shop or similar place. We spend…
Back a thousand years ago when I had small, adorable children I managed to send out holiday cards. I used templates to stick in pictures of the Dufflets, the world’s most adorable children, and a saved list of holiday address labels to stick on the front of envelopes. Then, people moved and the address labels…
This one goes out to all of my Gen X peeps who ever stood around a 40-gallon garbage can filled with Kool-Aid and grain alcohol in the late 80’s or early 90’s wearing acid washed jeans and pretending to be sophisticated. We were reminiscing about the early days of COVID-19 of all things, when toilet…
It’s pub day, my friends! Devil’s Defense has officially been released into the world. You can find it online wherever you buy books, and in person at your favorite bookstore or local library. (You may have to ask them to order it, but please do.) Because you are my loyal subscribers, I’m giving you a…
Friends. I have some good news for you. If you follow me on social media, you probably already know this due to my incessant, obnoxious posting, but if you don’t, or if the Meta Algorithms have not been kind to me, I need to let you know: My first full-length novel is going to be…