A post celebrating #RadesDay – the birthday of our friend Rades – Mike Eng – who passed away at the end of August.
It’s #RadesDay – I’m going to try to write about him, finally
Listening for Flowers
These came home with The Gentleman yesterday. (The inside of the card says: “and I can imagine some pretty awesome shit”) It’s not a special date or anything (our anniversary is 10/12). He just stopped at the store for onions,
Tackling Projects Family Style
So my lovely parents came to visit me this weekend, largely to help me buy a car, because the last time I bought a car it was a really weaselly high pressure sale situation and I didn’t want to do
Introducing Janice
In 2004, my dad and I went car shopping, and I drove off the lot with a 5-speed manual Toyota Corolla that I promptly named Luna. Luna the Corolla was my companion on about 160,000 miles of adventures, but last
A Study in Contrasts
I had the distinct privilege this weekend of going to Scottsdale, AZ to officiate the wedding between two of my oldest internet friends, Pix and Quin. Pix is the DM for my Dar na Theria game, where Ancelyn Blackstone, dwarven
Eye’ll be seeing you
I recently went to the ophthalmologist for an eye exam. It had been… ahem… five years since I’d been there. Needless to say I had some decent changes to my prescription, but the real change was that I now have
Morning wins and losses
So, I am not recently very good at mornings. This is bad, because I get up at 5:15 and am in the car by 5:45 if my morning is going correctly. This morning, I got up a few minutes early
Goals for 2015
This year, I will drink more tea. I will read more books. I will let the cat snuggle in my lap, even when I am wearing black pants. I will do more yoga, walk more, hug more people and more
Process vs Product
One of the things I’ve “stolen” from the knitting community is the idea of being process vs product oriented. A process oriented person does things because they like the DOING of the things – they knit for the pleasure of
January – What I’m Reading
Here’s what’s on the reading list right now: Kevin Crossley-Holland The Norse Myths – in this introductory text on Norse Mythology, Crossley-Holland combines myth retellings with strong scholarship on the original texts for each myths. This book is extremely readable,