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Recent blog posts
Happy April - the weather, my blog reading habits, and my failure of a t-shirt
Let the garden reports begin - I planted my garden
I have so many more things that I want to blog about, but no time. -
I don't mean to neglect you, LJ
Movement - brief note about writing retreat and my foot
Spring (almost) - random weekend stuff, in which I buy a sewing machine and make dinner
Story sale and other updates - I sold a story, won a speech contest, and made pajama pants
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The lazy man's crosspost
On the Ephemeral Nature of Snow People - my snowman was taller than me. then it wasn't.
I sewed a tote bag - with photos
Nope, I still don't have a Wordpress to LJ plugin. -
Recipe: Cherry Pecan Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
(Manual crosspost from elizabethshack.com)
We have a few pecans, courtesy of my parents and their tree. I was
trying to decide what to do with them, and as often happens I thought of
dessert. Specifically ice cream. Then I thought about what would go
well with pecans in ice cream…and came up with something amazing.
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Being a wall isn’t good enough
(Manual crosspost from elizabethshack.com)
The other night at tennis I was thinking about a writing metaphor.
Last fall I played a guy who was basically a wall. He could get to every
shot I made. All his shots went in. He didn’t make mistakes. He beat me
easily.
But I kind of wonder how far you can go in tennis like that, without ( Read more... ) -
My website is back
(Manual crosspost from elizabethshack.comI have a bunch of things to fix. I've updated to a new theme, and it needs to have fewer serifs and more green. I have to reinstate all my old uploaded photos. And I want to play with various plugin settings for comments and stats and crossposts and stuff ( Read more... ) -
blog go bye bye
I've got backups of posts here on LJ. And to think, I was considering deleting my LJ account entirely. I have backups offline too, but obviously the copies here are the final posted versions ( Read more... ) -
ConFusion
I spent the weekend at ConFusion, hanging out with the group I call the Michigan people, which includes people who don’t currently live in Michigan and one person who I don’t think ever has.
I don’t like reading people’s con reports, so I’m not going to post one. I had fun; I went to panels; I talked with a bunch of people. I also got lots of sleep ( Read more... ) -
Using TaskPaper as an Outliner
Last week I mentioned TaskPaper and said that this week I would say more about how I use it as an outliner. (It’s Mac only, so if that doesn’t interest you, you can skip this post now.)
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That’s not fair! There was time now!
The blog is on sick leave today.
I’m feeling much better after a mild cold, but I’ve got stuff to catch up on. Every time I tried to read or think, it just didn’t work, so I spent the afternoon watching old Twilight Zone and Doctor Who episodes.
Mirrored from Elizabeth Shack.