Continuing on with my personal lists...10 Things I Love

1 - I love art in all of its forms and varieties. The expression of joy and angst into visual, audible and kinetic displays is basic to human-kind. A small child will make artistic visions with colors and paints, an elder will pick up a pencil to draw, a musician will tap out a rhythmn or ( Read more... )

 I love to read. I have loved it since I was a small child. My idea of a perfect day is spending it with my nose in a book. But the definition of a book has broadened as I have grown up. When I was young, I read how-is-it-done explanations, historic stories and novels, lots of science fiction, and of course JRR Tolkien. The library was my ( Read more... )

 What a year it has been. I became bolder. I reviewed more fanfic stories and, because I was more vocal, made friends in fanfic throughout the world. That's one of the highlights of my year - I enjoy having friends in places other than the US, it helps me pull away from being so insular. People in the US have a habit of staying inside their ( Read more... )

 We're running our 4-Day End-of-Year sale today. It's Day 2. Yesterday was pretty busy and I don't dare leave Chickie and Jim on their own today because Jim isn't up to speed helping customers when they get a lot into the store at a time. So I'll go in and work. But I'll go in late - I figure I'll show up around 11 am - and if the pace isn't as ( Read more... )

No, not Betas as in the fish, betas as in having a story reviewed and edited by an outside person before putting the story onto a public reading board. I act as a beta for one author regularly as well as with a group of people who, thankfully, have even better eyes than I do and catch more quibbles than I. The group manages to fine-tune stories ( Read more... )