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more Wiscon panel brainstorming
I have another panel to propose:
Why We Gather
In The Art of Gathering Priya Parker says that the first step in convening people meaningfully is committing to a bold, sharp purpose. As we recreate and recommit to WisCon, let's talk about that. What is WisCon's purpose? What is your purpose in coming to WisCon? How will you know whether you ( Read more... ) -
Wiscon panel brainstorming
Wiscon panel suggestions end on January 7!
To suggest a panel: https://program.wiscon.net/brainstorm/
I have an idea I would like help with.
Villain Redemption Stories ( Read more... ) -
book challenges
Reading Writers Of Color ( Read more... ) -
new year's eve
I hope the fires in Boulder County were snuffed out by our first real snow of the year. I wish Nixie would stay an extra day or two, until the roads are clear, but she is determined to go back to New Mexico tomorrow.
We made lentil soup, with the last of the kale from my garden. We played Codenames, which is an excellent game. It's really hard not ( Read more... ) -
Wednesday reading
• What are you reading?
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, by Mona Eltahawy, for Sirens book group.
I wrote this book with enough rage to fuel a rocket. I knew I had to write it while I was still high on the glory of beating up a man who had sexually assaulted me. Who was this woman I had become, who looks men in the eye, seizing their ( Read more... ) -
BEAR
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/1403446845507084292
30 seconds of a wild black bear taking a bath -
the kids next door
On Valentine's Day they left two valentines on my front porch, one from each of them, with two chocolates, shaped like a heart and a bee. The nine-year-old wrote "Happy Valentines Day!" in a starburst, and drew a butterfly and a bee. The five-year-old drew two hearts, and wrote "I LOVE" twice, and drew a stick figure holding one of the hearts on a ( Read more... ) -
The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
Half of the life of trees takes place underground, and almost all of it happens too slowly to catch our attention. Trees communicate with each other and with other species through chemical signals and soundwaves that we need instruments to detect ( Read more... ) -
I saw comet!
I went up to Masonville to watch "A Band Called Death", a movie about a Black proto-punk band in 1970's Detroit. (At the dark of the moon, Neal projects a movie onto the side of the barn. A few friends come to watch and be social, six feet apart.) I thought the movie's ratio of talk to music was way off. But we all got to see the comet! I looked ( Read more... ) -
reading wednesday
My reading brain seems to be coming out of lockdown. I'm reading The Breath of the Sun by Isaac Fellman for SF book group. I managed to read This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone for last month's SF book group. One nice thing about having book group online is that someone I really like who has moved away has been ( Read more... )