I’ve decided to rewrite Hobgoblin from scratch. See, I was thinking it’s really a YA novel; except as written now, the two main characters are in their thirties; so I have to make them much younger. Once they’re much younger, their basic living situations (and school and job situations) naturally have to change. Plus shouldn’t […]

It’s amazing, how it all piles up. Mail comes in, magazines arrive; boxes and bags come in; you get busy and let it slip for a minute or two, and….well it seems like I’ve spent most of the day purging, weeding, recycling, dumping. Oh, I also did my Ashtanga practice–the whole thing, for the first

It says something about the weather around here when the warmest I felt all day was during my swim. (Well okay, and during the hot tub after.) It’s pretty but VERY COLD! I haven’t had a chance to use my fabulous new gardening tool, which Mark got me for Christmas. The instructions are all in

Today was a Very Ordinary Day–and there is much rejoicing! I went to yoga, and did an entire freelance job, and went for a swim, and cleaned toilets, and put away a bunch of stuff from the trip, and ate leftovers (from yesterday’s New Year’s blackeyed peas), and cleaned the walls of the fish tank,

This isn’t really a comprehensive post…I’m just not up to digging through last year’s journal. So I will forget things, probably important things. So be it. I used to reread my journals all the time–my handwritten journals (I haven’t kept a handwritten journal in years…) and my LJ. I can’t remember the last time I’ve

So I’m a few days now back at home after traveling for most of last month. This morning, Mark went home to Seattle. I’m sad to see him go, but it’s also nice to get back into my routine, get things done here. I actually spent some time in the garden today! It was VERY

Here’s what I read last year, in order of reading*. Some of them aren’t published yet. 🙂 1. Flynn, Gillian: Dark Places 2. Robson, Justina: Keeping It Real 3. Nix, Garth: Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz 4. Woolrich, Cornell: Phantom Lady 5. Robson, Justina: Selling Out 6. Kostova, Elizabeth: The Swan Thieves 7. Tobin, Paul:

(15 minutes early) 2012 wrap-up post(s) to come tomorrow. My beloved is here one last night before we return to our respective corners states and get some work done. Good night, all!

Home sweet home! Fall over now. Into MY OWN BED yes.

After a lovely Christmas, and then a very nice couple of days at Chez Ferraris Sr. (i.e. the Land of Very Little Internet), Mark and I are finally (finally!) en route home. We’re pausing for the night in Redding (on purpose this time, unlike when we broke down here), because weather. As in, today it