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Today we painted boxes to wrap presents in.
One day there will be posts with real content. (I never did the capclave roundup, either; most of it was the Megatherium sending me off with several pieces of advice including the classic: "Don't throw up in the car, Mommy!" and the nagging question of whether if people come up to you after a panel to say they appreciated your comments it's more ( Read more... ) -
costume box!
I'm making the Megatherium a box of play costumes for Christmas (or more probably, some of it for Christmas, with future installments for birthday and onward.)
Has anyone brilliant inspirations for what to put in it?
Xposty from dreamwidth. -
Happy December!
I am trying to remember the bit where I love my festival of winter lights and hypothetical snow and giving people presents, and not so much the bit where grauwulf is busy hating the commerce and enforced cheerfulness and potential family hypocrisy. (I utterly agree that the consumer economics nonsense is crap-- in fact, most modern economics ( Read more... ) -
Capclave, for real this time
If you're not already at Capclave, but intending on going (or feeling voyeuristic about cons you can't make it to) here's where I'll be tomorrow:
Saturday 1:00 pm: Food In Fiction (Ends at: 1:55 pm) Bethesda
Panelists:Ann Chatham, Brenda W. Clough, Victoria Janssen (M)
Even heroes and dragons have to eat. The food in a work of fiction can be a ( Read more... ) -
Capclave brainstorming
They're still calling what's online a "preliminary schedule" (which is good, since they've got Fran Wilde in two places at once) but I currently appear to be on a "Non-Western influences in fantasy" panel (which I sincerely hope will not turn into another round of "Cultural Appropriation 101"*) and would appreciate other people's favorite non- ( Read more... ) -
All Fall
So, the Thursday before last the people who are supposed to be building our deck e-mailed grauwulf to say that instead of the second week of October, they were sending a team out to start last Wednesday. So that kicked off a week of my wrangling sick toddler (there are consequences for chewing on random crap while camping...) and move the compost ( Read more... ) -
Self-promotion is easy!
Or at least easier than that essay about toddler linguistics I keep failing to gather up all my thoughts about. (There's currently an entry on my grocery list for "pink iced cream" and we've begun to refer to all chocolate milk & hot chocolate options as "Oval milk" (from Ovaltine). Like you do.)
The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Year Six is ( Read more... ) -
Ponies! Pine trees! Shore traffic...
We took the Megatherium camping last weekend, to see the wild ponies of Assateague* although since the National Seashore was celebrating its 50th anniversary, we ended up camping at Pokomoke River State Park instead and daytripping the ponies. It's a lovely park, all loblolly pines and river, with some very nice new facilities and playground and ( Read more... ) -
Coming soon to a book festival near (ok, me, actually)
The Baltimore Book Festival is this weekend!
I will be at the SFWA tent on Sunday September 27! On panels with people you've maybe heard of! Madness!
1 pm- "Reading Group 5: Spotlight in Short Fiction" Short fiction is often said to be the heart and soul of the science fiction and fantasy genres. Discover short fiction and your new favorite ( Read more... ) -
History wasn't like that.
My child is being marketed too, quite effectively, because we'll get these books out of the library and then there are pictures of other books on the backs, and then she'll ask me to put them on hold, too. And so we ended up with a handful of American history stories that wouldn't otherwise have been on anyone's radar (two westward expansion, one ( Read more... )