I’m going to be an aunt! Our family is growing!! We had all given up hope! (well, almost.) 🙂 Thanksgivings are auspicious around my family these days. Last year, Mark proposed. This year, the news that Brother and Amazing Girlfriend are having a little boy next May. Eeeeee!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Well, my to-do list is looking a lot better, though “write long blog post about the last year” is still un-checked-off. 🙂 Tomorrow we leave for California, family, Thanksgiving, you know. So today we are getting ready, including doing some gardening, of the tidying-up-for-winter variety. I got stabbed by a huge rose thorn so hard

Life has been busy. Oh yes. Life has been too busy to even come here and tell you about how busy life has been. That’s pretty busy! But…I actually opened the file of Queen & Tower yesterday, and I wrote! I wrote three pages, the beginning of a scene that I realized needs to be

I am going to blog soon, no really, any day now, I so totally am. But you see, it’s freezing. LITERALLY FREEZING. I know, that’s no excuse. Even so! Literally! Freezing! Perhaps I will blog tomorrow. Yes, Friday, that’s it: nobody on the internets; I shall blog then. Until then: book, and bedcovers. Yep.

It was a marvelous honeymoon! It flew by, though at the same time, it was quiet and relaxing. Though we expected rain the whole time, Wednesday was actually pretty and sunny, so we went for a hike up Turtleback Mountain. We are soooooo out of shape, but the exercise felt good. Then it DID rain

SOMEBODY was smart enough to plan the honeymoon for several weeks after the wedding (koff, koff, ahem). For those who are barley planning their wedding, then we definitely recommend having one of the special grand cayman weddings.  Which gave us plenty of time to have the flu, and get over it, and get some work

Wow, that was quite a thing. I guess it must have been the flu; we weren’t able to get our flu shots, as Kaiser just started offering them the day before we left for the wedding, and even if there had been time, it didn’t seem smart to set ourselves up for vaccination-reactions right before

After the gigantic and marvelous things that happened last week, it seems only fitting that I am now suffering from my worst cold in recent memory. Mark had it too–he actually got sick right before the wedding–but I followed along in due course, and it’s knocked me flat. I wouldn’t give back any of the

Publishers Weekly has given Our Lady of the Islands a starred review! And it is full of marvelous praise. Look, see! * Our Lady of the Islands Shannon Page and Jay Lake. Per Aspera (www.perasperapress.com), $29.99 (530p) ISBN 978-1-941662-06-9 This satisfying feminist tale—set in an underexplored corner of Lake’s lush, mythical Green universe (Green, etc.)

A number of people at the wedding asked to see the vows we wrote…(of course we wrote them! We’re writers!) We humbly oblige. Shannon says to Mark: I love you. I love how you listen to me, even when I have no words. ESPECIALLY when I have no words. I love how you give me