I have read fanfic since I was reading Mulder x Scully fics on Gossamer. No, even before that on webrings and mailing lists. So for well over twenty years now. I read a whole lot of fanfic my last year in Japan because due to some weirdness of location and radio-waves, I couldn’t get anything in on my TV but NHK. Back then I was reading on ( Read more... )

My father was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma while I was in high school. It went into remission and then came back. Then went into remission again. Then came back again ( Read more... )

I have a difficult time throwing anything sentimental away, like letters from friends dating back over 25 years. I haven't read many of them since the day they first landed in my hands but every so often, as I sift through the layers of my life, I see them again and the faintest brush of those memories is sweet ( Read more... )

I am considering backing this Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alina-alive/aligned-life-planner-align-your-goals-with-astrology

I have tried to get in the habit of making dream boards on the new moon. Not just because I am a hipster who drinks matcha au laits and owns a Fjällräven Kånken but because new moons happen every month so ( Read more... )

When I was little, my grandma and grandpa lived in an old farmhouse that, if I remember correctly, dated back to the time Michigan achieved statehood. The yard and the house seemed remarkably large to me. It was by no means a mansion, rather a dull, square, sturdy thing made to house the size of family you would need to farm a good-sized plot of ( Read more... )

Do you ever find yourself, at some point during any given day, thinking, "This is the moment the reenactment is going to flash back to. This is where everything starts to go wrong, even though I am unaware of it yet."

Do you ever think thoughts like that keep disasters at bay because actually you are aware of it and disaster has to strike when you ( Read more... )

Part of my job is to double check dates in the letters we send out. It's one of the vital things I can't skip (unlike most of my editing that, in a time crunch, can get shoved to the side) because the date of the letter sets all the due dates of the required responses. So most days I spend a while staring at dates ( Read more... )

When I was about 14 years old I did something I cannot believe I ever found the courage to do. It still seems like a memory from a TV show rather than from my own life, but I actually did this ( Read more... )

I recently found myself watching the video for TLC's 1999 hit Unpretty on YouTube. In the way that one does when one is very adept at wasting time online, I thought to myself, "I wonder what the actress playing the bulimic teen has gone on to do." This seemed like a simple enough question to answer so I looked at the Wikipedia entry for UnprettyI ( Read more... )

Saturday evening my husband and I went to see the Colorado Ballet's performance of Giselle. Both of us are nursing colds and the car won't currently start (it's a finicky not so little thing) but we wrapped up well and took the bus (surprisingly much more convenient ( Read more... )