House is packed.
Floor is stripped. Finally. I am going to bed.
Journal
Happy Father’s Day!
We celebrated by packing! I also stripped more linoleum, and am nearly finished.
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Clearing the cellar
Rob has a collection of wine. The trouble with driving across the country in the summer is that the wine would bake in the moving truck. So, today we had guests over to help empty the cellar. The highlight of the evening, for me was his Domain Du Mas Blanc from Banyuls from 1977. (Rob
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Twenty years ago
I haven’t seen my high school friend, Irene, since we graduated twenty years ago. She moved to Portland last year and this is the first time we’ve managed to get together. The experience was surreal and great. It was as if time had not passed, except of course that it had. A lifetime, really, so
The Slush God Speaketh: Shimmer — The Pirate Issue: Table of Contents
The Slush God Speaketh: Shimmer — The Pirate Issue: Table of Contents At long last, I present the table of contents for Shimmer — The Pirate Issue: * A Hand for Each by J. Kathleen Cheney * Captain Blood’s B00ty by Jeremiah Tolbert * The Blackguard of God by Melinda Selmys * Come to the
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A box by the road
Yesterday, Rob asked me about a box on our curb. It had a towel and a car floor mat in it. I didn’t recognize either, but figured that someone had pulled it out of their car while loading some yardsale item in. Granted, it hadn’t been there the day of the yard sale, but neither
The stranger’s house
I am living in a stranger’s house. It is not the boxes which make it so; it is the absence of things. We sold the steamer trunk which served as our bathroom cabinet. As we were carrying it out, I realized that I’d owned it for nearly twenty years. I bought it in college and
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Minor miracle
I just dropped one of my mom’s punchbowl glass cups on a marble rolling pin and it didn’t break.
The Cross-Country Itinerary
A week from today, my husband and I will begin the cross-country drive to NYC. Here are the scheduled stops. June 20th – Boise, ID June 21 – SLC, Utah — Come have dinner with us at the Paradise Cafe, 7:00. June 22nd – Mt. Rushmore area June 23rd-24th – Avon, MN (near Minneapolis) June
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Cornmeal Cranberry Cookies Recipe at Epicurious.com
I made these Cornmeal Cranberry Cookies Recipe from Epicurious.com today, but with a few changes, which I will mention below. If you like shortbread, you will adore these. ingredients 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup yellow cornmeal 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 sticks (1 1/2 cups) unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups
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Higgins
We just returned from dinner out with Bob Bates, one of Rob’s friends from Hawaii, and our friends Don and Yan. The meal was wonderful, as always, and it was great to catch up with them. However, at this rate, I will be exhausted before we hit the road. So, in the interests of self-preservation,
Beeper to signal new life
My nephew just sent me this article from the local paper about one of his friends. They’ve known each other since my nephew was five. Asher McGirt and his mother, Janet, have unusual summer plans: They’re waiting for the sound of a beeper. The beeper, when it vibrates and bleats, will signal that a set
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SFFreader » This Week’s New Short Fiction
SFFreader » This Week’s New Short Fiction ON MY SHELF Prime Codex, edited by Lawrence Schoen and Michael Livingston: I picked this up at CONduit last weekend at a reading by Eric James Stone, who has published multiple stories in places like Analog SF and IGMS. He’s a member of the Codex Writers Group, and
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Farewell Iron Chefs
Is that right? Why isn’t the plural Iron Cheves? Last night we went down to the Celsi’s for an Iron Chef reprise potluck. We’d all wanted to do another Iron Chef battle, but it just wasn’t in the cards. Eve reprised her Potato battle samosa dumplings in cardomon carrot sauce. Don brought his amazing, amazing
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Wistful Writings: Prime Codex – Review
Paul Abbamondi just reviewed Prime Codex the anthology from Paper Golem that I have a story in. A short piece that is positively sure to get you to mutter “a-ha!” at its cruelly twisted reveal, “Rampion” by Mary Robinette Kowal is the sort of story that is most enjoyable on its first read. Read it
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