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 …
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 …
Life gets in the way of blogging sometimes, even when it seems like not very much is happening at all. Shall we have some random so I can play catchup a bit? 1. Ladybug has been sitting up unassisted for …