1. I had (minor) surgery not quite two weeks ago. Those who follow me on Twitter are already tired of hearing me kvetch, so let this be the last surgical kvetch of 2010: Ouch. (No, not going into detail. It…

I’m starting to understand how it could take ten years to write a novel. I wrote Drowning Practice in two years, but it was a straightforward narrative with a single point-of-view character (told in extremely close third person). I followed…

The baby and I have been sick. We’re both feeling much better now, but the photos and intended blog posts have gotten kind of backed up. Will you indulge me in another random post/photo dump? 1. My dear friend Everette…

We got our half hog from Taylor-Made Farms a few weeks back, about 85lbs of pork. It’s maybe the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. So far I’ve used ground pork for meat sauce, served bacon a bunch…

I’m finally writing up the baby hat and legwarmer pattern for release, and I’ve got a question for you. What size range would you want to see on this pattern? I’ve already done the math and testing for a 0-6m…

He’s been asking to start studying kung fu for at least a year now. This past weekend we signed him up for classes at a fantastic school. He’s pretty psyched. Pre-babies and pre-blog, I studied kung fu. I was a…

Yeah…playing catch-up again with the photos. Behold the wonder that is our family: 1. Like 80% of Portlanders, we woke up to an unexpectedly warm and sunny Sunday a few weeks back and thought, “Pumpkins!” We went to Kruger’s Farm…

Last night I finished reading The Wilding. It was good, an enjoyable read—and a quick one. I read it in three nights while nursing the baby to sleep. It wasn’t quite as good as I’d wanted it to be, though,…

I finished my first novel (Drowning Practice) in 2005, before I got pregnant with Thumper. I had the extreme good fortune to spend my first month of that pregnancy at Ragdale, where I had nothing to do but write all…

Guess who’s started eating solid food? She’s six months now, sitting up unassisted for a few weeks already, and had been trying to mooch food off my plate constantly. It was time. So far I’ve made her pureed apples, pureed…