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#ThrowbackThursday: Bloomsbury, A Year Ago Today

 

So This Just Happened…

https://lover-of-the-starkindler.tumblr.com/post/626076634845495296

My very good friend E. L. Bates (aka Louise) advertised my books on Tumblr to someone who was looking for Domestic Fantasy (because she’s that kind of friend). And they went and bought them.

And then they MADE FAN ART ABOUT THEM.

I might have just burst into tears when I saw this… I love it so much.

So of course I had to join Tumblr in order to comment. I’m still kind of lost on that site, but I do think you can click on the i...

Happy Bloggiversary to Us!

Ten years ago! Exactly ten years ago Steve and I put up our first blog post, here. Right after I’d taken a blogging course at the local college. The instructor said to be sure to post photos, so Steve offered to model, and, well, the rest is history.

Historic image of Steve, Aug. 1, 2010

Hmm, looking back at that photo of him, Steve has aged a bit in the last ten years. He’s spent a fair bit of time smooshed into travel bags and riding around in the bottom of backpacks; that’s what you get for b...

Forgotten Gratefulness

FORGOTTEN GRATEFULNESS

Gratefulness.

I’ve forgotten about gratefulness.

I’ve been standing in front of a full cupboard, starving.

Starving for joy,

My heart drying up into a hard, shrivelled knob,

Weakening to a limp, wilting shoot.

Gratefulness.

I’ve forgotten that joy

Is there for the taking,

That it is around me

All the time.

Gratefulness.

What shall today’s litany be?

I am grateful for, today:

I am grateful for today.

My celadon green mug.

Soft thick yarn.

The blanket.

The view (always the ...

#ThrowbackThursday: It’s a Mystery

This is a post from eight years ago, July 8, 2012, from my old blog over on Blogger. Still valid. Hmm, I think I could start rereading those M. M. Kaye mysteries again; I’ve probably forgotten whodunnit by now.

It’s a Mystery

I really like mystery novels. It’s a little odd, that, as I loathe and abhor violence, and you pretty much can’t get any more violent that murder. But for some reason, reading about cranky old rich men being offed for their money doesn’t disturb me, probably because it’s ...

Yours Truly @ Enchanted Conversation: On Spindles and a Pet Peeve

I recently let off a rant about spinning wheels and one of my pet peeves, and Kate on Enchanted Conversation Magazine kindly consented to publish it. Here you go:

On Spindles and a Pet PeeveEnchanted Conversation recently republished an older post by Elizabeth Creith, a highly informative article on flax that is aptly entitled “STRAW INTO GOLD.” As a fairly new convert to spinning, it caught my interest—and it reminded me of one of my pet peeves where “spinning and fairy tales” is concerned.  Ful...

#WordlessWednesday: Colour & Light

Happy Birthday, Canada!

Straw Berries

I was probably in my teens, visiting relatives in the Lake Contance region, the fruit basket of Germany, close to the Swiss border. We were going for a walk, and came by a large strawberry field. All along the ground beneath the plants was spread a thick layer of straw.

And all of a sudden the penny dropped: strawberries!

I was already familiar with the English word, which I had learned in school. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, “[t]here is no corresponding compound in other German...

Yesterday’s #WordlessWednesday: St. John’s Berry

Red Currants: Johannisbeeren, St. John’s Berries. Because they’re ripe right around St. John’s Day, June 24. Happy Saint Jean Baptiste!