Elizabeth is here! E is in transit, halfway between her old life in Seattle and her new life in Longyearbyen, in Svalbard. She is here […]
Category: Musings
Spring, breaking.
…in several senses. Spring seems to have started, insofar as today is characterized by relentless heavy rainfall. I would be happier about this if my […]
Favorite things: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
I just spent a few hours writing a guest blog post for Speculative Chic (link as soon as it goes live), which got me thinking […]
Not wanting to see things.
My mentor is 95. A couple of months ago, he fell on ice. Miraculously, he broke nothing; even though it was bitterly cold outside, there […]
Newer place?
Exciting and pleasant news: I will be moving this summer, to a house about a mile from my current, extraordinarily cute little ranch. The new […]
Letters from readers, or: shouting into a well and the well occasionally shouting back.
Yesterday I got an envelope from Small Beer, a bit too early for my royalty statement. Inside was a note from my publisher and a […]
Bits and bobs.
So, that wee tiny little nest someone started to put together right before the cold snap, as mentioned in my previous post? They evidently thought […]
Cold to colder.
As my cold eases up, the temperature drops again outside. More snow, more cold, temps below zero on Sunday. Again. I worry. I have an […]
Five things still equal a post.
…just as they did in LiveJournal, back in the late Cretaceous. I have a cold or minor flu that is leaving me easily tired, and […]
That damn jay. Also, Fridays.
There’s one particular jay in my back yard that pretended to be a hawk for over an hour this morning, practicing his hawk-scream until it […]