A friend of mine was the first to read His Faithful Squire, back when I called the manuscript simply “Rafe.” I remember she thought Taro and Rafe were too affectionate. She explained that her gay son and his friends were not at all demonstrative. I thought that in a time and place where gays were […]
July 8th. Time is ticking by. We don’t have a house. We looked at a mobile home today that had a park not six feet from the back door, but we just can’t cope with the house and the location (small and cramped, way the flip from my work) even for the park and the
Hope is stuck. She crawled under Bly’s stuff stored on the porch–where she knows she isn’t allowed–and now she can’t get out. We’re calling it an object lesson. And we’re not helping. Object lesson is also what you might call the housing situation. We went and looked at a house today. We’d really like to
It’s satisfying. It clears the air. And damn it–it feels good. No, I don’t have a reason. Okay, yeah, I do, but it’s not a good one (is there a good reason to throw a tantrum?) and it’s not something anyone but me can do anything about. So I kept it a fairly mild fit.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, in their world debut–Taro and Rafe!! Aren’t they awesome??? I splurged, commissioned an acquaintance to draw them for me. Inspirational, ne? 😀 Go here to get her to draw you something. Be CAREFUL browsing, though, she draws yaoi too, and some of her stuff squicks me.
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It’s not really that I think Orlando Bloom is so adorable. It was just a really good picture of Legolas. That’s why I left my LOTR desk calendar on that day for nearly a week. Did I mention Mr. Bloom was my original model for Rafe Ballard in books three, four, and at least two
Hope got sent home from school again today. She ran away from the assistant principal when she was supposed to be wiping tables for the trouble she got in yesterday, and hid in the bathroom and had to be hunted down. So I had her for the last four hours I was at work. I