garden garden garden
Last year’s garden was a big, not entirely successful experiment. I hadn’t had a vegetable garden since I was a kid (when the adults did all the planning and most of the work, and in a very different growing climate …
A weekend in pictures (and a few words, because I like words)
A walk in Forest Park Behold, a robin! Spring! Spring! Spring! (I love Spring) (Though now that I’ve typed it four times in quick succession, it’s starting to look really funny to me. Spring. SPRIIIIIINGGGGGGUH. Hunh.) Cooing over the chicks …
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shake my foggy brain and see what falls away
Goddamn, I’m tired. Hit-by-a-truck tired. And bleary-brained and monkey-minded. No, I’m not telling you I’m pregnant. I’m also not telling you I’m not pregnant. We’re toward the end of the waiting-to-see-if-we-did-it phase. Again. The Two Week Wait, this time enhanced …
Oh yeah, I have a blog… I should probably feed it
But I am weary, my dears, and have not been in a bloggy mood of late. Shall we have some random list-making? 1. Spring seems to have arrived in Portland, so I’m celebrating by knitting mittens for the kid, which …
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I am weak
I know I said I was only going to work on stories until I hear from Gail that Adverse Possession is ready to go out to editors. It’s really the best thing to do, given the way I work, to …
Thumper’s Video Picks
What the discerning toddler is watching on YouTube this week. “I wanna watch the drum video.” “No, the OTHER drum video.” “I want Feist come to my house, pick me up. I want Feist hug my body.”
Waiting
Revisions are finished, and the current novel is back with my agent. Now begins, again, the tortuous waiting for her to read it. And then she’ll either want more revisions or will deem it ready to go out to editors. …
Light Boxes by Shane Jones
Trying out something new around here. A book review, and an interview with that book’s author. Do let me know if you enjoy it, and if it’s something you’d like to see more of on the blog. The Book: I …
And…
…chemical pregnancy. It’s something I think has actually happened several times since the miscarriage, but I couldn’t get my last doctor to believe I was right when I felt pregnant and then had abnormal periods. Thanks to this book (and …
Saved by rock n roll
This has been a long week. Unforgivably long. Monday started out fine, but ended with the beginning of the kid’s first-ever stomach bug. Just an upset stomach and a lot of diapers* at first, but then we were up all …