My parents are 89 (mother) and 90 (father).  They're frail and are not really safe anymore, staying where they are, especially since they live in the country, so they have an enormous lawn to mow and no neighbors close enough to hear them if they cry out.

I've been trying to get them to move into assisted living for several years now, and they've ( Read more... )

On my birthday, back in March, a reader on AO3 left a very long, very detailed comment on her favorite of my stories as a birthday gift. This meant that she ( Read more... )

gingerbred reminded me that it's been awhile since I told people where to find me on Dreamwidth. I'm Corylea over there.  I use Corylea as my online name for most things (except fan fiction), so I used the migration to Dreamwidth to bring my journal name into alignment with my usual online name ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, so the beets I served at dinner last night had a festive shape:


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A lot of my fan fiction is written in response to OTHER fan fiction, because Somebody Was Wrong On The Internet.  I'd say I should stop that, but some of the stories I get out of it are kinda fun ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to a wonderful person!  I wish you posted more often, because I'd love to hear more about what's on your mind.

I can't draw fabulous things for you, the way our beloved mywitch can, but here's a birthday card, anyway:


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You might see on the news that Massachusetts had a storm that people are calling a "bomb cyclone" and that hundreds of thousands of people are without electricity.  Although we did get 60 centimeters of snow in one day (that's TWO FEET, my fellow Americans), Norman and I are fine!  It's been windy here, but the super-high winds were south of us, ( Read more... )

Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I've been not sleeping much at night because of pain, so I'm exhausted and have very little energy. Plus I have a friend in the hospital, so what social energy I can squeeze out mostly goes to them right now ( Read more... )

They say there's a Chinese curse that goes, "May you live in interesting times."  I don't know if there really is, but times have been interesting in a Chinese-curse way lately ( Read more... )

Most of the people who write Star Trek stories that include telepathic mating bonds between a Vulcan and a human make those bonds magically perfect.  Well, you know me -- I think magically perfect isn't a feature of any relationship, and marrying outside of your species will come with challenges that must be overcome.  Of course, overcoming those ( Read more... )