All right, it might be a few days late, but it’s time for my War of the Roses event report! *Kermit arm flail ( Read more... )

Today's question: how much can you accomplish in 22 hours of blinding heat and humidity? Quite a lot, it turns out.

( North Region War Camp )

As I mentioned a few days ago, I completely skipped out on our local event this weekend so that I could work on my kitchen and get it ready for the renovations. I was kinda bummed out about it. I'd wanted to go, especially after missing Birka for work, but I was very stressed and overwhelmed by what needed to be done to prepare, and one of the main ( Read more... )

It's getting towards the end of yet another year, and as always, that's made me kind of introspective. And because I'm me, my mind has trended towards the idea of learning. I'm working full time, which means that I'm no longer in school. That makes me sad. But on the flip side, internet resources for learning are becoming more and more plentiful, ( Read more... )

Friends, I know you didn't have anything else planned for this weekend, so why not browse through 15,000 words of Pennsic nostalgia? That's right, this year's Pennsic diary is online! In it, you'll discover that I became Mistress Marian of Heatherdale's apprentice, performed for the royalty of the Known World, and went on stage for the ( Read more... )

This year at Pennsic, I will be teaching a class called "Sexy, Silly, Scheming Saints." (First Wednesday, August 1, 10:00 am, AS4) This class will be focused on fun saint stories from the Golden Legend, a medieval book of saints lives. If you come, here are the stories you can expect to hear ( Read more... )

I've been styling myself as a bard since 2003, give or take. In that time, I've had wonderful fun both writing and performing, camp-hopping and standing on stage, and (very occasionally) competing. And while I seem to have a knack for accumulating prizes that other people have won in competition (I think I'm up to four and counting), I have yet to ( Read more... )

I realized last night that sometime since returning to Montreal in 2006, after my MA, I lost interest in my local SCA group. First it was a lack of interest in local practices, particularly after they split up into separate activities on separate nights. For several years, I'd skip out on practices and only go to moots, events, and quarterly A&S ( Read more... )

Today I realized that I've only got 28 1/2 weeks until Pennsic, which means it's prime time to start planning. My boss has assured me that I'll be able to take the two weeks off for Pennsic this year, and I'm going to be sure to get that in writing at some point in the very near future. In any case, this is the first time since 2007 that I'm pretty ( Read more... )

For the young-looking performers among my readers, who have always wanted to perform No Longer Seventeen but didn't happen to be my age, you're in luck! I have just updated the song's page to include alternate end verses to fit every age from twenty-one to twenty-nine, with an extra bonus verse for young-looking performers who are thirty years old ( Read more... )