Here's to 2016, and to hoping it is a good year for everyone.

Last year I made four resolutions and kept two of them (2.5 with some use of flexible definitions), which is not that bad, all things considered. This year, I'm going to try five things, consisting of a combination of the general and the specific.

Aspen's New Year's Resolutions for ( Read more... )

It's the last day of December 2015. Upon checking, I also realized that this is my first post this month, which kind of encapsulates the wild ride that both this month and this year have been. Hard to believe, in some ways ( Read more... )

Seeing a few similar entries on my reading list reminds me that the holiday season is fast approaching. Last year I tried my hand at holiday baking in addition to cards, and I had so much fun doing it that I thought I'd try it again. Therefore, a poll!

(ETA: I see the poll settings default to registered users - on the off chance that anyone else ( Read more... )

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

--Lawrence Binyon, the Ode of Remembrance from "For the Fallen."

In Flanders fields the poppies blow ( Read more... )

N.B. - I'm writing this from (one of) the Houston airport(s), waiting through the last of the three remaining hours before my flight home, so I ask that y'all please forgive any incoherence right now.Thank you all who commented on my last post, about Talia - I very much appreciate it, more than I can say. Literally, in fact; I've tried a few times ( Read more... )

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It’s one week until October’s arrival. I can’t believe how fast this year is flying by. I’ve heard it said that time passes more swiftly as you get older, but I think this is the first year that I’ve really found that to be true. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not, not entirely; I guess it is what it is, in the end ( Read more... )

So a while back, I signed up for the Bitches Get Shit Done daily text from Kelly Sue DeConnick, and I have to say, the messages have been both really funny and inspiring in a useful way.

Today's message:
Fresh start. This week resolve to focus on only your responsibilities and the things you can control. Mind your side of the street.
I can get ( Read more... )

In the spirit of not letting too much time pass without an update, have a few semi-random bullet points about things that have been going on with me!

• DragonCon. This was a lot of fun, although I feel that I was not particularly successful with panels or celebrity-related anything this year. Of the four panels that I did go to, I had about a 60% ( Read more... )

I've been avoiding pretty much all mention of it in the media, in part because I truly needed to avoid a rage blackout, but I didn't want to let today go by without remembering Hurricane Katrina.

• What I wrote then.
• Two years after.
• Courtesy of
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