• Of chickens and revision

    Today I got a call from a friend who’d been attacked by a wooden chicken while cleaning and ended up with two broken bones, a chipped bone, and some ligament issues in one of her hands. This same friend is…

  • What is True

    I’m linking this to Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. It’s brilliant. It’s inspiring. And as I’m working on this revision, it reminds me what the writing is and should be about. Today, I…

  • Hopeful news

    It looks like there’s a publisher who may be interested in the Crosspointe books. If so, we’re looking at seeing an end to the series! Wahoo!

  • manners and lack thereof

    Guster, the rescue corgi, has now gone on to his home with my parents. He will hopefully be very happy. He’s a loving dog, but really scared after all the clear abuse he must have had from his former people.…

  • of color

    Kate Elliot posted an essay today called Decolonizing as an SF Writer by Rochita Loenen-Luiz. The subject is one that’s interesting to me because a lot of my dissertation and research has dealt with colonization/postcolonization/neocolonization. I think colonization is the…

  • sparkling

    The house is clean. Well, you know, as it gets. It’s pretty sparkly to be honest and I even got some flowers planted. We might get a freeze tonight, so hope they survive. We have two appointments scheduled for tomorrow.…

  • Bird Neepery

    There is a hawk cam at the University of Wisconsin Madison. You can see the mother (at least I’m supposing it’s the mother) and three babies (are they called eyases?). It is so very cool. Go look. Two different lookers…

  • adulthood rite

    Today I used power tools. Yeah, I know, big deal. But usually when we do things to the house, the man is here to do most of the power tool stuff, but also to confidently make holes in walls and…

  • The learning

    What I learned today at Costco: if there’s a little star/asterisk thing in the right upper corner of a price sign, it means that that product is almost out of stock and they won’t be getting it in again real…