I had a lot of fun with Scott being here–we went around town yesterday doing research for a potential new project of his, including riding the tram up to the OHSU hospital and meandering about in the rain, and signing stock at downtown Powells. And then had a nice dinner at McMenamins before his reading […]

Next week I’m participating in the DAW anthology reading in Seattle, at the University Book Store: Thursday, May 10, 7:00. Announcement here. If you’re in the area and coming, want to get dinner beforehand? Let me know! And tonight I’ve got a houseguest: my old friend Scott, who’s in town to read tomorrow night at

The plants, that is: who is munching on my big healthy strawberry leaves? It’s not the snails (or slugs); they work lower down, and I know their telltales. (Also, I’ve liberally sprinkled the area with Snail Death.) I poked around at the plants and scared off some teeny-tiny white moths, maybe, or whiteflies. So I

So I think I’ve written the new first chapter of Nightcraft Mother. It’s shorter than I expected; I think that will mean the two other new chapters will be longer. But, I do like the tone of it, and I think it’s covering what I need to cover. We’ll see! Also, I finished my draft

I was thinking about things I’ve managed to do on my own here recently. You know, as people who live alone have to do. -I used the pickaxe in the garden. -I put together a table. -I killed a spider. -I am doing all the aquarium maintenance, including dealing with a leaky pipe (well, only

I finished the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on–I like it, I’m happy with how it came out. Tomorrow I’ll give it another read-through and then hand it over to my co-conspirator. I’ve left him a whole thousand words to play with. 🙂 Of course he will cut plenty of my

I made a trek to Costco today where, in addition to receiving the terrible news that they’ve stopped selling that wonderful individually-wrapped toilet paper I’ve been buying for years, I discovered a lovely and affordable table for the deck–that pretty much matches the chairs I already had: Of course I had to assemble it. And

I got to work this morning for our regular sales meeting only to be greeted by the news that our office is closing down! We’ll all be able to join other offices within the company, but…wow. This was a surprise. I’ve really enjoyed the people I’ve worked with there. Some of them will come to

I had brunch today (breakfast for me, lunch for him) with the Most Recent Ex. It was very pleasant. This is a big milestone, and it was a nice, comfortable, low-key event. We’ll do it again in a few weeks, is the plan. I wrote 500 words on the in-progress story, that had been neglected

1. Boy, we don’t do things by half measures around here. 85 degrees today and stunningly gorgeous. I still have a snow-scraper in the front seat of my car. It’s like, never mind spring, here’s summer! 2. Sometime in the night, the cichlid died. I have mixed feelings about this. This was the fish that