I finished Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife: Horizon this morning; here are my first thoughts ( Read more... )

Cool new Swiftly Tilting Planet icon by iconsbycurtana. I saw it in a friend's friend's post and had to have it! I've always been fond of St. Patrick's Breastplate.

And then read Legacy and Passage, and buy Horizon when it comes out!

Here are the books I read in 2008 and actually remembered to add to my list.  The ones in brackets are re-reads.

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In response to a challenge to write a sonnet about HO-gauge model trains ( Read more... )

Today we canned ( Read more... )

Explication of “The Holy Room” (which I wrote in 2001 the first time we sang this anthem in choir)

In the anthem “The Holy Room,” Sam Batt Owens sets to music the first, fifth, and sixth stanzas of the poem “Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness,” by John Donne (1572-1631), leaving out the more geographical conceit, or extended metaphor, of the ( Read more... )

I posted the list of books I had read so far in 2007 a month or so ago.  My computer was down for a while, but now it's back, and here are the books (that I remembered to write down) for the rest of the year.  The first two books were on the first list, but I hadn't finished or commented on them.  Bracketed books are rereads ( Read more... )

This is part of a list I've been keeping for a few years. I've put books I was rereading in brackets (when I've remembered to list them at all). I give short comments for some, mostly to remind myself of what the book's about.

Elizabeth Moon, Engaging the Enemy [also Trading in Danger and Marque and Reprisal] The story of Ky Vatta continues to be ( Read more... )

Yesterday our haflinger pony, Loki, went to join the team at the Root Farm, to assist in hippotherapy for handicapped children--see www.rootfarm.org for lots of information about the program. Three people from the program came to see him last Friday, rode him and longed him (which he did beautifully, even going from canter to trot on voice command ( Read more... )