When my dad was dying, we joked that he should turn his ashes into diamonds (my mother did not pay attention to this and took the appropriately sober step of burying his ashes in his parent’s grave). But I found it interesting that cremain ashes could (and have) been turned into diamonds. If I have [...]
DH and I celebrated our anniversary this year with a day trip. We began by dropping DS1 off in Portland for a meeting with the artist of the game he’s working (no deets until it is released as an iPhone app early next year, then I’ll brag). We walked around Portland for an hour, enjoying [...]
Well, I lost NaNo this year. I think I logged on to the site something like three times. I did write a little on the new book every day, I just never got around to posting updates. But 15,000 isn’t 50,000, so I have to deal with not winning this year…. …. Okay, I’m over [...]
When my children were small, I tried pumpkin carving every Halloween. For a few years. Like I tried making train cakes, Grover cakes. Like I tried making Harry Potter and bunny Halloween costumes. Eventually, I realized my artistic skills were limited to words (and my children grew past the three-year old’s ability to looooove that [...]
