Water is so wonderful. I’ve always loved being in it. When I was a kid and my dad would take me and my brothers fishing? He never caught anything, because very quickly we kids would be in the water, and no fish in its right mind is coming near that. In tiny streams that barely […]
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It’s raining. Has been all day. And a lot of yesterday. It’s hard for me to do anything at all. I love rain. I miss it. I grew up in Pennsylvania, in a place where, according to my 8th grade science teacher, some form of precipitation fell from the sky three hundred days a year.
Have you ever met your hero? I have–and she’s even more amazing in person. If you like fantasy or awesome or elves or stories of the Other or great art or amazing storytelling or any of a number of wonderful things, you’ve heard of (or should have heard of!) ElfQuest. It is, of course, the
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I got a pretty candle, some yummy chocolate, a Saiyuki DVD, a Calvin and Hobbes book, and a happy kid. She got a new phone, a cable box (we’ve been without TV for two years), nail polish, nail art, BIG hoop earrings…many girly things she’s been dying for. Oh, and Santa brought her fireworks. Thanks,
I hate the greed, the expectations, the bull from so many directions. But I love people being happy. So… Please forgive my rambling spiels, my bouts of grump and grinch, and believe that I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Merry Christmas. Happy (belated) Hanukkah. A joyous solstice (also belated.) Happy Kwanzaa. Happy
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I did not come up with this; it is from Family Circle’s Best Ever Cakes and Cookies. And these cookies are just that–the best ever. So, in response to the threats of Mr. Chuck Wendig, I give you my favorite cookie recipe. Right after I babble a bit so the picture of the squid ninja
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“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” — Neil Gaiman That’s it. What
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