You were all so sweet about my un-boringness–thank you! (I wasn’t fishing for compliments that time–swear!!!) One of the interviews is out, and I thought I’d post it for you–but you are under NO OBLIGATION TO READ IT. (But do give Kenda a hullo–she’s been very sweet, and she, too, is just starting out as… Read More

Me! I’d been waiting on two interview requests–one posed two months ago, and one sent about two weeks ago. Both interviews arrived yesterday. It’s funny–because e-interviews always say, “Don’t worry–take your time–it’s no big deal…” but I always feel like I’ve got a live snake in my e-mail box and I would rather wrangle that… Read More

Every year for the last ten years, this time of year is eaten up by ‘recital’. Some years it coincides with graduation, two years it coincided EXACTLY on our anniversary. Sometimes Mate volunteers to be security, and before the second wave of kids, I was doing some sewing and piecework for the costumes. But every… Read More

** I started a second scrap blanket with some Lion Brand Homespun leftovers. I was going to give it to a student, but that time came and went, and so it was a blanket without a home. The Cave Troll was sitting on my lap yesterday as I finished it (with some yarn I can’t… Read More

Imagine a completely destroyed suburban home, late at night. Mate is working hard on WoW in the living room, I am working hard (don’t laugh!) on Bitter Moon II, when suddenly our peace is interrupted by a series of intestinal sounds that would frighten the dog…if she wasn’t half deaf and the one emitting them…. Read More

First of all, a couple of pictures to show that the babies are growing just fine, and that I have yet to off Mate as part of an elaborate insurance scam. Plus, the kids are just damned cute. And speaking of Mate– Yesterday was our 19th wedding anniversary. No, I didn’t forget–I’d just done a… Read More

Okay–Roxie tagged me, and this sounded very covert and fun… “PS – you have been meme-tagged.Pick up the nearest book.Open on page 123.Find the fifth sentence.Post the next three sentences.Tag five people,and acknowledge who tagged you. “ Now, the book I’m READING is Lover Enshrined, because sometimes, I am a sheep. But the NEAREST book… Read More

When I was five, and my mom and dad had split, my dad went in to talk to my Kindergarten teacher before school started and told her, “She’s going to be left handed.” The teacher didn’t believe him–he was a man, it was 1972, and men didn’t know jack about parenting, and so the useless… Read More

Okay, graduation is over, and just in time for the end of school, some of you will notice from a certain missing post that yes, Amy Lane, showing a learning curve the shape of a dead vampire’s heart rate did, indeed, screw up her almost perfect record this year of not shooting off her big… Read More

Okay–as a long time crocheter who still visits the dark side on occasion, this blog–snarfed from the place where goddesses bitch has totally entranced me. You can tell. I just did two links in one post.