For the last few years, my sister and I have been playing the daily New York Times puzzles. A few months ago, We started sharing our daily efforts playing Wordle and Connections - we both also play other NYT puzzle games, but stuck with the two main games to share.

It’s a great, low-key way to stay connected. Often we just share the basic results, but if either of us has a particularly good or particularly bad day with our solutions, we’ll commiserate. We both agree the most annoying thing to happen in Wordle is to have 4 of the five letters correctly placed with either the first or second guess, and then need 3 or 4 chances to find the final letter.

Some memorable quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold

• “Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long they stand around chatting before they shoot you.” - Shards of Honor

• “My home is not a place, it is a person, sir.” - Barrayar

• “Geography is the mother of strategy.” - The Vor Game

• “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” - A Civil Campaign

• “The world is made by the people who show up for the job.” - Cryoburn

• “Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn’t going to supply it.” - Cordellia’s Honor

• “I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.” - A Civil Campaign

• “Not all prisons are made of iron bars, some are made of feather beds.” - The Curse of Chalion