How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 4 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Still, Mina grinned wickedly. “Not afraid enough,” she sang. “You need to bring the las– ” Just then, a bone-shivering, ear-shriveling shriek slashed the morning air. Though perhaps the stone walls…
See Previous | See Next Alright. The cold and the snow are here! Not a huge lot of snow, but very much cold enough to get that snow to stick around a while. The winter garden always looks so much prettier draped in white. Cozy and cold. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is almost all snow (except for the last two this winter), with the whole range of aspects, from frosting, to blizzard disaster, to soggy, to sunny….
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 3 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… At least now there wouldn’t be any rose blossoms for gran-Tom to send her after for at least a week, maybe two. As Mina took in the wide destruction of her…
Okay, it’s time for another post about writing (because I like to write about writing, apparently). This one is about story ideas! Story ideas are lots of fun and can feel really precious, but are actually pretty darned easy to come by. This, of course, is not news. It seems like nearly every writer’s blog I’ve read has some variation on the idea that story ideas are the easy part of writing (the actual writing is way more work!), or…
See Previous | See Next Well, January here so far has been nearly entirely warm and sunny. Or sometimes a little chilly and sunny. We’ve only just got a thin skin of snow and before that only the occasional tepid frost. It makes my garden pleasant to be out and about in, but I’d like a little winter, please. Seasons are a thing I like. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years the mosaic is kind of all over the…
Here’s how allergy skin testing for me usually goes. At some point, the technician always says, “I’m sorry.” (Mostly because I’m massively allergic to all the grasses, but also, you know, most of everything else, too.)
Today I got to add a new food allergy to my list. Aren’t I just a lucky duck? (It’s bell peppers.)
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters Well, here it is, installments 1 and 2 are now live of my next SSCS! (That stands for Serial Stream-of-Consciousness Story, which is something you can find out more about here.) I’ll be putting out a new (pretty short) installment once each week, on Friday, until the story is done (around about early August). This year’s story, ‘How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters,’ has a very different flavor than last…
See Previous | See Next Happy New Year! It’s still a pretty warm winter so far (snow’s all gone again), though not yet as very, very dry as that can mean. My rose canes are still happy, anyway (let’s hope that continues to last!) and in the meantime there’s always the ever-growing vinca… Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a kind of chaos maybe pointing toward more snow. The mosaic has nearly all the different types represented at…
See Previous | See Next Well, we got just enough snow Christmas Eve to make it look like my hellebores were masquerading as sugar cookies. Not quite enough snow to be white-Christmas-level decorative, but still kind of decorative. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years seems to be predicting more snow to come! But it’s actually really random, as that shot of hardy violas this time two years ago also points out. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years somehow…