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June 28, 2017
#WordlessWednesday: Mock Orange
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: mock orange, walk in the woods, Wordless Wednesday
June 21, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: The Crack of Summer Solstice
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: dawn, insomnia, summer solstice, Wordless Wednesday
June 15, 2017
Biscuit, Biscuit, and Biscuit
I was reviving my refrigerator micro-pets, aka waking up the kefir and the sourdough which usually languishes in the back of the fridge. Twice-daily feeding of the critters makes for a fair amount of excess sourdough. There’s only so much bread you can bake, and it usually takes all day, which is inconvenient – so what to do with the stuff? I could just dump it in the compost, I suppose – and I’ve done just that, too. But it’s wasteful, so really a last-ditch thing to do (haha, see what I did...
June 14, 2017
June 11, 2017
Beauty and the Book
I had a gift card for the local bookstore that I’d been saving for something special. And I went shopping today and spent it: The Beauty and the Beast, the full novel-length version by Mme de Villeneuve (in the 1858 translation by J. R. Planché), with amazing and fancy illustrations (some of them pop-ups) by MinaLima. It only just came out a couple of weeks ago. Now I finally have my own copy of the Villeneuve version!
Filed under: fairy tales Tagged: Beau...
June 9, 2017
Jill of All Trades
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Way back, when I first started blogging, I took a blogging course. If you want readers, the teacher said, make your blog be about something. Have a focus! But I didn’t. Because I can’t.
There are lots of blogs that are about one thing, and one thing only. I have friends who write about sewing or knitting. There’s several blogs I follow that are all about fairy tales (like this, or this one). Writers, of course, have blogs about writing. There are great blogs about food (incredible numbers of...
June 7, 2017
June 2, 2017
The Issue With Rumpelstiltskin
I have a heck of a time typing “Rumpelstiltskin” – the “ltsk” combo in the middle is really hard to get, as no other word I can think of has that sound sequence in English. For some reason, the German “Rumpelstilzchen” flows much easier from the fingers.
However, that’s not the main issue with this fairy tale. The real problem, I decided on re-reading it yesterday, is that the beautiful miller’s daughter (that’s the beautiful daughter of the miller, not the daughter of the...
May 31, 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Life Force, or: Sumac vs. Driveway
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Filed under: Wordless Wednesday Tagged: life force, power of plants, sumac, Wordless Wednesday
May 26, 2017
Writers in Conference
I got to go to the Writer’s Conference, Word on the Lake, this past weekend. Now that I have (mostly) recovered from the excitement and adrenaline high, here are a few pictures:
[image error]The dock on Shuswap Lake next to the hotel
[image error]We stayed at the hotel; Steve got a bed all to himself
[image error]Steve and me watching old Star Trek on TV in our room. He thinks Captain Kirk is silly.
I got to have a blue pencil (critique) session with Gail Anderson-Dargatz, an award-winning internationally bestselling author who ju...
