Rob and I are hunkering down and enjoying some quiet time. We’re making dinner for ourselves this evening. Menu Curried butternut squash soup Celeriac fennel salad with shaved parmesan Ravioli stuffed with chantrelles, carmelized onion and goat cheese Spinach tossed with persimmons Rob is picking wine, but I don’t know what it is.
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Don’t get me wrong. The dragons were great, but the movie as a whole just dragged on and on. I won’t write more, because I don’t want to present spoilers, but it was not one of my favorites.
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Wow. I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. I went back to the school I taught at a couple of weeks ago for a follow-up visit. The plan was to watch snippets of the kids’ shows and give them feedback. In the space of two hours I saw 30+ playlets. My eyes were
My review of Granny: a Ghost story of the North Carolina Mountains is up at sffaudio.com.
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Ah, today has been lovely. Rob and I slept in, which is always a good way to start the day. Then Wayne came by and took us out to brunch at Beaterville. I did a little housecleaning and worked on the puppets, because I finally have my sewing machine back. Thank heavens. It had a
Four years ago today. Rob and I are going to dinner at Tabla tonight to celebrate the only time I will ever get him to dance.
There’s an op-ed piece in the New York Times entitled, Zuckerman Juiced which makes me chuckle.
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Today I started with Physical therapy. In good news, we’ve switched from focusing on stabalizing the shoulder, to strengthening it. I was a little sore after therapy, but I think it’s all good. After that, worked on finishing the stitching on those Kids on the Block puppets. My sewing machine jammed about three weeks ago,
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People who don’t know me very well, marvel at all of the different things I do. My husband knows the truth. Jodi, my creative partner, knows the truth. I am a procrastinator and will always find ways around doing what I really need to be doing. And now, there’s an essay on Structured Procrastination which
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Rob and I went to Don’s 50th birthday party, which was quite the soiree. Like Rob, Don is a serious wine geek, so there were amazing, amazing wines. Even to me, and my untrained palatte. Oh my heavens. And the food! Don had spent the past two days cooking in preparation for the party. And
The Uncanny Valley is part of a thesis by Doctor Masahiro Mori which “represents the point at which a person observing the creature or object in question sees something that is nearly human, but just enough off-kilter to seem eerie or disquieting.” The article is targetted at SF and Fantasy writers but I couldn’t help
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I’m making good progress, I think. I just finished Chapter 8 and am slicing through Chapter 9. Tally ho!
I completely forgot to mention that I taught a puppetry workshop yesterday. Three hours and 64 students. It was a marathon, but they were darn good kids. It was a group of gifted and talented eighth graders and they were a blast to work with. Disciplined, creative, and excited to be there. By the end
This weekend, I recorded Orson Scott Card’s Middle Woman, which will appear as an audio bonus in the next issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show. This has long been one of my favorite stories and I’ve had the passing fantasy of adapting it to puppet stage. This is much better–it’s like puppetry for radio. I sent
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The Fantasy Novelist’s Exam is a very amusing, and fairly telling exam, that I’m sure was written by someone who had read one too many bad Fantasy Novel. I’m happy to say that Good Housekeeping doesn’t fail any of the questions. Well, maybe number 15, but not in the way they mean it.
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