Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 12
January 29, 2017
Mindfulness
It’s such an overused term, these last few years. It was originally a technique for achieving a fuller view of the world-as-it-is and a deeper sense of one’s place in…
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January 27, 2017
Mycroft’s Delight: the cake
There’s a widespread headcanon among the writers of Sherlock fanfic (and others in the fandom) that Mycroft Holmes — possibly as an associated phenomenon of an old or longstanding weight…
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Mycroft’s Delight: the fanfic
Every now and then I’ll be minding my own business and doing my work, and then suddenly, without warning, the urge to commit fanfic will strike. Mostly I ignore it…
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January 14, 2017
The Muddy Bath Sheet Blues
I’m about to have a strange conversation with Peter when he wakes up. DD: That yellow towel in the bathroom? Put it in the wash. PM: What? Why? It was…
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January 6, 2017
“A whither and a whence”
People who follow my Twitter feed know that it’s pretty eclectic, but there are some themes that repeat besides science fiction and fantasy: art (especially lithography, Art Deco and Art…
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December 28, 2016
RAETIAN TALES: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH now in paperback!
For those of you who’ve been waiting for a dead-tree version: A Wind From The South is available online at last! You can get it here from Amazon.com. (A Kindle…
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The Cheese Straw Recipe
In 2010 or thereabouts, a tiny little cookbook came to us via Peter’s Mum and immediately became a household favorite. It was published in 1903 for what was the first…
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December 11, 2016
The Young Wizards Advent Calendar is up again
Each day from the first to the twenty-fifth of December 2015, the Advent calendar based at this page over at the Young Wizards: Interim Errantry site showed scraps of previously-unheard…
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December 9, 2016
The Bundt Pan Booklet
Some years back, maybe four or five years ago, I was doing a lot of cake baking and realized that I needed a tube cake pan besides the gugelhupf pans…
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December 2, 2016
“So Earth has wizards now.”
Yes, well, so it does. But all the same, when the line came up in a mid-credits scene, I snorted. After the madness of the weekend and Tuesday and my…
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