Busy as bees all weekend. There’s the zines to get out and Ern (the senior partner in the zines) had his birthday party at our house. So, with 16 people coming for a BBQ dinner, Hyperion and I really had to clean the house and the yard. Ern came out a couple of times to […]
It’s been a busy month and we’re quickly approaching the end; and that means getting the publications up and ready to go live on September 1st. “What publications,” you ask? Why SFRevu and Gumshoe Review. Time usually seems to compress near the end of the month, but it seems like I had even less time […]
I’m intrigued by the communities that women create for themselves, and so I often read books centered around crafts, especially the crafts that I also love. Knitting is one of the ways that I bring meditation and calmness into my life. So, I read a lot of books with knitting as one of the central […]
Warning: This is going to be a political rant. If you’re Republican, come back tomorrow when I’ve gotten over my snit a bit. I’ve been a Democrat since I could vote. There was a while when I changed my party to Republican; but that was to vote for the least bad one in the primary, […]
The last week has been a bit of a strain. Not that anything really awful has happened. There’s been the usual stress of gearing up for the publication of all the zines on September 1st. Just the usual stuff of pinging all the reviewers and seeing where we stand. Not to bad except I realized […]
I’m evidently still in a Austen mood. Prior to vacation, I finished reading The Darcy Connection by Elizabeth Aston. This one, I can give my whole-hearted endorsement. Aston definitely has a feel for the original characters and brings that into her follow-on stories even when the original characters are only on the pages for short […]
I did a lot of reading while Hyperion was driving on our nearly cross-country road trip. I enjoy light reading that I can take up and put down as the mood takes me. I’ve also been on a big Jane Austen binge including the follow-on novels. Before leaving on our trip I stopped at the […]
The problem with going to a convention or taking a vacation is that life just keeps on going while you’re gone. So, when you get back you don’t start fresh, you start about one thousand feet back from the starting line. When we got back from Denver, we returned the car and picked up our […]