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Puppy Sadness Has a Cure

Sad space puppies need consolation

First of all an update on the Sarah: exhausted but improving. For the next month I’m going to be doing more than I should physically, but the fact we’re finally doing something about getting the house up for sale cheers me up.

It’s very weird to live in a house that doesn’t “fit” and to be fair, it did until the boys got big and needed office space. It’s not a matter of size, either, as lacking space for specific activities. I mean, the house gets messy, becau...

The Culture of Motherhood -Cedar Sanderson

The Culture of Motherhood-Cedar Sanderson

Without mothers, the world would not be the place that it is. And yet, in our self-hating society, motherhood is denigrated, despised, and belittled. Mothers are mocked for becoming mothers, and then challenged to perform beyond human limits. When they fail? Mocked again. It’s enough to make you wonder why they bother.

Let’s put this into perspective. Only a very small portion of the world’s societies demand that a woman keep maintaining a career while...

Beware Writer

I’m sort of fried this morning — I will be entertaining guest posts, if any of you dreams of starring at ATH (your name in lights. Or at least in WordPress!) — because we’re trying to get house ready for sale by my surgery date on March 16th. (It’s not that there is anything major wrong with the house, but there are myriad little unsightly things. My younger son said “Can’t we wait to paint till we have an offer? If the buyer wants it painted, then we paint!” I had to explain the process of a...

Baby I like your Style — a blast from the past post January 2008

*I’m alive. I have internet access at home. It’s a new service, though, and it’s SO secure that I am having trouble doing things like pull mail. I have my hotmail up, though, and would appreciate guest posts which I’d like to go heavy on for about two weeks, while we get house ready and books finished. This post might be too writerly, but I find it fascinating that I was even back then suspicious of the Nebulas and other prizes.*

Unless life, death or the end of the world as we know it — and t...

On the Run

So, this post is horribly late, mostly because I slept through three alarms, and then had to make it to place with access. I shall post then go back home to pack/clean/other fun stuff.

It’s been a very tiring process, I’m dying to sit down and write, but every time I sit down I fall asleep.

Anyway – for those hoping to see me at Cosine, I won’t be there. It’s not that I didn’t want to go – I did. It got me out of lifting heavy things, even if I might go to sleep on some panels – but we must get...

A Stranger Reflection

*Some housekeeping stuff before the post. As most of you know, by now, I’m having internet connectivity problems. I’ve been posting from a remote location where I can access the net, which explains why my answers here come in clumps all at one time. Today (I’m writing this yesterday, so I almost said tomorrow) I might not be able to reach this away-point, since — for those of you not on the net right now — Colorado Springs is getting clobbered with snow, and getting here today meant that we r...

Being Yourself As Hard as You Can

In one of the Tiffany Aching books, Terry Pratchett gives as a formula for success in life “Being yourself as hard as you can” and spending time doing what you’re good at. He said it was very sad that most people never found what they were good at.

This advice sounds deceptively like “follow your bliss.” It’s not. It’s more “find your vocation.” You have a set of unique characteristics that can fit optimally with some profession. If you find it, and use your skills to best effect you’ll be ver...

Tilting at Windmills

Cultural movements have a certain life cycle. If you read enough history, you see it. Because humans are the same all through history, the history of ideas that excite people tend to follow the same points.

It starts with enthusiasm and iconoclastic elan. That is the idea is so strange and far fetched for that society that only people who arrive at their positions by difficult individual thought and decision think it’s a good idea.

In fact, people who think this is a good idea, might get called...

The Charity of Strangers — A blast from the past post from June 2007

*What, you’re going to b*tch it’s a blast from the past? Sorry, but everything hurts. And no, the appointment wasn’t medical, it was related to trying to get the house ready for sale, and that’s why I’m so tired everything hurts. So, now I’m going to clean my closet.*

I should be working on my overdue novel or writing my overdue short story. I’m not. The reason I’m not is because I’ve been turning an ethical problem in my mind.

And this is going to lead me to break one of my longstanding rules,...

Post later

Sorry, I have to deal with some appointment stuff. will post nearer noon.

Someone was supposed to send me a guest post and didn’t!

Try not to break things or each other. SPQR has the baton to close discussions that are driving everyone insane. He’s used to command.