fly-by-posting: 2024/03/13
Yay! I get to start a new color! …It is also blue. #crossstitching
Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1
These stories are all apropos of nothing. I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1 How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this. It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 10
See Previous | See Next Well, ‘tis the season to go hunting around in the leaf mulch, uncovering the poor tulip shoots all valiantly trying to force their way up to somewhere there’s light! Sometimes one or two other green things gets discovered too, but mostly it’s tulips, erecting dead-leaf tents as their way of shouting, “I’m here! I’m here!” Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is a reminder that this time of year can be variable about just…
SSCS 02: Installment 11 of 32
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 11 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… Mina could turn her head now, could look gran-Tom in the eye and see the old priestess’ grin hidden there, even as more kraken tentacles looped down around her shoulders, like…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 9
See Previous | See Next It’s been warm, feeling like spring. The snow finished melting off my white lentin roses (hellebores), and apparently they were even more ready to bloom than the fancy red one up front that’s still working on its buds. All of the sudden, pretty spring flowers! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years doesn’t corroborate the lentin-rose phenomenon, but does agree that hens-and-chicks and maybe some other little things do start peeking out around now. Looking…
SSCS 02: Installment 10 of 32
How to Catch Flying Pigs, and Sea Monsters This is Installment 10 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… Then, gently, a weight came to rest on the exposed side of Mina’s neck, the Other One touching her, still staying where Mina couldn’t see. Next, a slow, soft stroke downward…
fly-by-posting: 2024/02/27 (w/pic)
Just a little morning commute blizzard.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2024 week 8
See Previous | See Next The snow is steadily melting down in my garden, and like some sort of sneaky alien, the buds from my beautiful, red hellebore are now starting to emerge! Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years suggests one or two other things may be emerging soon – along with critters, apparently? or maybe they’ll just be getting cuter shortly. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years shows other examples of struggling out from under the snow…
fly-by-posting 2024/02/26 (w/pic)
First flowers of spring! (sadly not in my garden)
Happy my-Mama’s Birthday!
“Your girls are so lucky.” It was after a TaeKwonDo class, and I was dropping off a classmate home, telling her about my little girl who had (still has!) such a talent for drawing. “What do you mean?” I asked. “We weren’t allowed to focus on anything that wasn’t ‘serious’ when I was growing up,” she said. “Sports were okay, but not art.” And I was kind of gob-smacked. Up until that point, I had really never conceived of a…