So! November has come and it is time for the Showing of the Roses! This was a really weird year for my garden. It started with a positively luxuriously wet spring, wherein simply everything was green. But that then evolved into the usual Hot and Dry Summer, which was further compounded by my being away and not watering for large swaths of that time. And then we’ve had an exceptionally mild fall, but I think most of the plants were…
This summer I finished another cross-stitch. Like the last one I posted about, this is also a Mirabilia Designs cross-stitch (from a pattern released in 2006), and is called The Stargazer. As you will see, it’s not a particularly colorful design (so many different blues!). But, I’m a sucker for star-themed images to start with, and I feel like this design has such an elegant balance, I just couldn’t resist it. One thing I love about cross-stitches is how the…
I’ve just posted the final installment of my latest serialized story to this blog. And so now, for either those who’ve held off reading it yet and maybe need some enticement, or for those who just like to hear about what went into a story, I’d like to tell you a bit more about it. We’re going to do this in a quasi-interrogation format, just for fun, and also to keep things from wandering too far afield. Author Interrogations: SSCS-03…
Sometimes we do what we call family karaoke night, where each person gets to pick a few songs and we bring them up on YouTube with lyrics to sing along to. Recently this was our line-up. (And yes, it does seem obvious that two-thirds of these songs were chosen by people over 40. …but can you tell which two-thirds?)
Hello, whoever’s out there. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I’ve put up a proper post. This spring, and the lead-up to this spring, has been rather a lot. And there’s a good chance there will be another long gap between this post and whatever goes up after it. To paint a general picture, I will just say that between last November and now I have: 1) Surmounted the hurdles of two very large projects, one for work and…
Always pretty. Love you.
I have made a table-ish thing! Actually, I did most of the making last year, but I wasn’t able to finish it or use it until this month, for reasons that will become clear. First, though, I should say that I kind of only have two build-project speeds (for really any definition of ‘build’ that you like). The most usual project speed begins with “I want this to be nice”. And so, as a result, it takes me weeks and…
(I wanted to draw you a picture of a goat hiding up in a tree (in order to escape piranhas), but it seems that even that is outside my capabilities at this present time.)
How do you start a story? How do you end a story? These can be extremely vexing questions for any writer. But one thing anyone can remember when you hit this wall is that you were actually taught the best way to begin and end nearly any piece of writing in Middle School. Remember? Tell them what you’re going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you told them. That, of course, sounds super-pedantic and boring, which is…
Although I’d like to and intend to post something new and regular-blog-post-like to this blog on a semi-regular basis, sometimes I go for stretches where I seem to have lost access to any extra brain cells, especially the ones needed for coming up with anything even vaguely resembling ‘new.’ In fact, lately, I’ve been hovering near the borders of just such a state. And so, I’ve come up with an idea! What sort of prompt might require not very many…