Shannon

-I’m reading in Bellingham this Sunday, August 28th: Village Books, 1200 11th Street, Bellingham, Washington. The reading/signing is at 4:00, and there will be lots of wonderful authors there! Come see us! -I turned in page proofs for Mark’s and my story “Oh Give Me Land, Lots of Land, Under Starry Skies Above.” The anthology […]

1. Swimming. I got to the pool today and did *four* lengths of crawl before I needed a “rest” length of breast-stroke; then spent the rest of my swim doing three lengths/one length. AND, I noticed that there were whole minutes at a time when I was able to let my mind wander and think

Well I must have learned something yesterday, because today I got to the pool and was able to do three whole lengths in crawl-stroke right out of the gate. Then I was entirely out of breath, so I began doing one breast-stroke length alternating with two crawl-stroke lengths, like how I ended up yesterday. It

I’ve been busy lately, it’s true; traveling, and being an extra, and traveling again, and getting caught up on all the stuff around the house that got ignored while I was doing all that. Even so. While Mark and I were driving to Spokane a week or so ago, we spent a long time discussing

Well I’ll be darned: the little pictures on my iPhone have words under them! Who knew?? That’s downright useful! I guess I’ve been struggling for a while, without any clue. Heh.

I was out fiddling around in the garden, and happened to check on the Area of Awful Destruction, and found this! Sorry it’s a bit fuzzy, but I wanted to get close enough so you could see the new growth! Some is long enough to make a shadow. There are three new shoots (I’m not

….at home again. I had a marvelous visit with my cousin M and her partner K in Eugene, and with my brother who was visiting Eugene and was the impetus for this-all to happen. It’s entirely unconscionable that I should have been living in Portland for over a year and this was the first time

So I can’t tell you a whole lot about the thing I did today but I can tell you what the thing was: I was an extra in a filmic endeavor. And it was fun! Totally cool. But I am not allowed to tell you what production it was or what happened as far as

Yep, traveling and going to cons really interferes with hanging-around-online time. It was lots of fun though! 🙂 SpoCon was a really nice con. I hadn’t ever been before–hadn’t even driven through the Cascades there, from Seattle, which was really lovely. Except for the weird and inexplicable traffic. Some of it was construction-related, but most

Got back to Seattle rather later than expected last night, due to a delightful lunch with friends followed by truly epic traffic on I-90 in the middle of nowhere, for no apparent reason. Ah, driving. 🙂 And now it is a lovely morning afternoon out there, and we’re not going to waste another minute of