I'm jealous of you Pittsburghers sunny spring weather! We had 26 days straight (no exaggeration) of rain - pouring rain, up until yesterday, which was sunny. (33 days was the record I guess sometime in the 60s.) Today it started raining again. There is a lot of flooding and the rivers and streams are all incredibly high and fast right now. We ( Read more... )

Just wanted to write congratulations to all of the nano gals on here and a very late happy birthday to D! The story of my life - trying to catch up with things that I'm behind on, in this case well wishes. Now I'm going to go try and find something remotely healthy to eat and work on my Mexican art history presentation on retablos and altar ( Read more... )

Catwalk God(ess)
38% Tastefulness, 65% Originality, 52% Deliberateness, 52% Sexiness [Flamboyant Original Deliberate Sexy]

You know fashion inside out but you're far from being its slave. To you ( Read more... )

Hey, for anyone who is doing Nanowrimo in November, do you want to share your log-in name with me so I can add you to my friends list there? Mine is just Prudence, if you want to add me too - then we can keep up to date on each other's progress, chat, etc.

xo

Tiny dish soap bubbles fly out of the bottle and float around the kitchen, shimmering in the sunlight as she pads on bare feet through crumbs, dog hair, and blackberry stains. Her mind only on the bubbles. In this moment inspiration comes in the luminescent forms floating before her. The ceiling fan whirs, there is clanging in the driveway of ( Read more... )

You Know You're From Alaska When...

"Vacation" means driving to Chitna to dip net ( Read more... )

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ( Read more... )

Just writing to say that I'm going to be off of live journal for a while. I need a break from being on the computer too much, and writing online instead of off, and all that kind of stuff. I'm feeling tired and stretched out and just want to focus my energy a lot more than I have been ( Read more... )

There was a tornado here today, just south of the area where we live - of course I didn't hear about it until after the fact, when someone called, worried we might have been sucked up. It's strange. I've never heard of a tornado here before. Earthquakes ripping big craters in the ground, and "dormant" volcanoes in all directions, but not ( Read more... )

So after first hatching this up over a year ago in Pittsburgh, and then getting uprooted for a while, I'm once again on the move to putting together a new zine - Fireweed. So, please - anyone who reads this - send me some stuff ( Read more... )