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A Call To Arms

Over at Sarah Hoyt’s blog, she’s talking about Interstellar, humanity, and our quest for the stars.   The clay of the Earth we���re made of is the material that made the stars. We���re made of stars. We���re made of eternal. We���re made of eternity and joy. It���s our destiny to dream and create and reach […]

Still Alive!

It’s been a while!  I’ve written a number of highly amusing posts in my head, but unfortunately none of them have made it as far as the keyboard.  Running after a super-active mini-Viking (whose favorite movie was Pacific Rim for a while, and now it is How to Train Your Dragon; I am a proud […]

On Getting Stuck, and Getting Unstuck Again

The experience of writing Steel Butterfly has been one of brief, intense periods of activity (and progress) followed by long stretches of nothing at all.  My computer tells me that the last time I edited the latest chapter was February of this year: ten months.  More than enough time to bring an infant to term.  […]

A Room of One’s Own

This Thanksgiving past, I did something I have never done before, something I didn’t think possible.  I wrote in a room full of people. Not just a blog post or a Facebook status, but actual semi-coherent words of fiction, a scene appearing in a s.f. retelling of Rapunzel, co-written with my longtime friend and fellow […]

Repaired with Gold

I found the above image on tumblr just now, and it really spoke to me.  (It also spoke to about fifty thousand other people, according to the number of reblogs it has received.)  First, it makes me want to smash some of my pottery and plates just so I can fix them with gold laquer.  […]

State of the Kat, or, Dude, Where’s My Commission?

Dear Friends, Many of you have asked me (and I’m sure all of you have wondered), quite justifiably, what is going on with your commissions.  Everyone has been unwaveringly kind and polite, for which I am grateful.  I am aware that everyone who has commissioned me has been waiting a long time, many of you […]

Unsorted Man of Steel Thoughts

Not a review! Also there are probably spoilers ahead. So, Man of Steel.  So desaturated!  I felt like I was watching an early episode of Supernatural.  Which I guess is appropriate, since both are about Kansans saving the world. Actually, the film did pretty well by us Kansans, although I’m not sure why Smallville had […]

In My Copious “Spare Time”

Happycrow blogged about his “spare time” list, and that got me thinking about what I would like to do in that elusive thing called “spare time.” Ha. Ha. Ha. My goal for the new year was to be done done done with sketchcards so I could focus on other things: like moving into comic book […]

Hail and Farewell

So today I want to talk about death. Well, no I don’t.  Not really.  Because it sucks.  But I also do, because it’s one of those inescapable realities that sucks whether you talk about it or not, but if you don’t talk about it eventually, it kind of sucks more. My Mister shook me awake […]

Cross-Pollination

I don’t know how it is with other people who both write things and draw things, but I find that my writing goes better when I have time to draw–and I don’t mean, either, the focused kind of I’m on a deadline and have to draw fifty spandex-clad superheroes by Monday drawing, but the more […]