Tales from the Raven

Seriously, when I started this thing, I wasn’t sure I’d last two months, let alone two years.  But the habit’s grown on me, and I don’t think I’ve gone for more than a week or two at a time without blogging, even when life threw up its spinach salsa and pickled eggs all over me.  Been noticing [...]

You might be wondering how I’m managing to blog on our moving day, and the answer would be—
I’m a Ninja!
Okay, not even a wanna-be.  But I am a fan of Ask a Ninja, and someday I plan to send in a question.  Right after I get my six foot plot of earth picked out and and my life [...]

Okay, so Plainbellied tagged me, and I figure that’s as good a reason as any to catch up the plog, whoops, I mean blog.  We’ll get to plogs some other time.
The rules are: List the rules.  Then list three: joys, fears, goals, obsessions, facts.  I guess someone likes three…except that I’m then supposed to tag [...]

I really should make this several nice, long, chatty blogs…but, ya know, life is moving on and I’m moving on with it.  So you’ll get the crammed, somewhat shorter version.  And my graduation report?  It’ll probably be even more crammed and tardy as well.
The rest of WorldCon was great, though a bit blurred.  We met [...]

I was swaying on my feet by the end of the day, so this will be shorter than it should be.  Yesterday (Wednesday) we caught a couple panels after registering, and I thoroughly enjoyed the one on writing a good query letter, offered by Kristen Nelson.  She was upbeat and funny while being very informative.  [...]

Yesterday was one of those days when it’s hard to tell if your life is cursed or blessed.  On the one hand, we just caught our first flight despite longer lines than expected for 6:00 in the morning, and were on one of the last flights allowed to take off for Houston, landing site of wanna-be [...]

Amongst my ealiest memories, way back in the hazy parts of my brain where the memories are a gathering of senses rather than a sharp image, I recall my mother reading from Tolkien.
We would begin each day gathered around her, often still cuddled in a blanket, while she read from the scriptures and then from [...]

This is the latest addition to our reef tank.  Though, of course, the picture doesn’t do it justice.  It’s an absolutely stunning teal green torch coral, which we’ve decided to call the Tumtum tree.

In the bottom left-hand corner you can also see a purple mushroom we transplanted a few weeks back.  The mushroom’s been interesting because it [...]