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Cozy winter days
I intend to update here regularly, but there just hasn't been much going on ( Read more... ) -
2010, good heavens
What a year that was. It was the best of times and the worst of times, truly ( Read more... ) -
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I have a cold today and anyway, it's the day after Christmas and I am just not doing a THING, apparently ( Read more... ) -
Brrr
Ooh, I'm loving the cold weather. It always makes me feel much more motivated to do things. Like make cups of tea in the morning and pots of stew at night! Last night I simmered a big pot of sweet potato, carrot, cabbage and kale in coconut milk and Thai-flavored broth with some garlic and turmeric. Yum. Warm and good ( Read more... ) -
Happy December!
December had come in with a coldfront, which is just how I like it. I need to dig out my advent calendars. But today I'm just enjoying the fact that I am Done With Things. For the last two months solid I have been working on something or away from home every single day. But now I am done! I can turn my attentions to the Grim Reaper book, which I'm ( Read more... ) -
Black Friday = Video Games
Cool environmentally conscious intellectuals don't shop on Black Friday. I know this because every year all the message boards and mailing lists on various topics to which I belong have a conversation like: "Would any of you go shopping on Black Friday?" "I would rather set a rainforest on fire and eat a chocolate-covered kitten than shop on Black ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving is a little weird. My grandparents got a great deal on a trip to Budapest, apparently, so no Grandma-cooking for me. My immediate family was planning a Thanksgiving where maybe we would all contribute a dish and keep it simple, perhaps roast a chicken...and then my mom had to go to Asheville to supervise flooring installation on ( Read more... ) -
Trying to be nice to "the city beautiful"
I read an interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith (she answered blog readers' questions over at Cynsations) and someone asked her what debut authors should NOT do, and one of her answers was:
Don't return to your hometown and open with, "Wow, I'm glad I made it out of here!" Every place has its charm and its dedicated book people. Embrace wherever ( Read more... ) -
I am home from my crazy travels across the eastern US!
And quite tired. Still. I got home yesterday (and spent a Very Long Time unpacking), slept many hours, and still can barely stay awake today. This trip was crazy. Eleven days of nonstop socializing, shopping, driving, eating, relocating (six hotels, plus my parents' Asheville house), and a bit of sleeping. Somewhere in there ( Read more... )
