. . . to all those driving to Pennsic today.

I'm back safely in Nashville ( Read more... )

I need an archery glove and bracer to use at the event.  If anyone is coming and has extras, may I borrow?  Master Li is bringing me a bow and arrows.

I'm coming north for family reasons, and I'm extending the trip to come to Northern Region War Camp ( Read more... )

So I'm working on a new poem about a knight named Palladine. It's going to be for story-telling, and I've been playing with a new form, the alliterative long lines and bob-and-wheel construction, used in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I've got the plot worked out, and I got about a stanza and a half written last night.

But I have a little ( Read more... )

I don't usually do Renaissance Faires.  They're like SCA events, but with scripted (and obviously choreographed) fights, higher merchant prices, and none of my friends.  And I don't get to shoot archery or do bardic stuff, either ( Read more... )

I just spent an hour restoring an e-mail account that I mistakenly and hastily deleted ( Read more... )

. . . this is War.

Frankly, it can't be a vacation when my schedule is as full of classes and meetings as it is during a typical work week in the middle of the semester.  I have to use a calendar program to keep track of things.

For those of you looking for me, I'll be camping with Club Aed in N13.  You can find me otherwise at:

• Hakon's bardic ( Read more... )

(In which Fiana's artistic and scholarly pride have a head-on collision with facts, history, and philosophy.)

I've been asked to an invitation-only event here  called Saxondaeg (literally, Saxon Day).  The SCA folks who host it are trying to recreate late Saxon England.  Since I offered to bring a story to that event in October, I decided to pull ( Read more... )

So, I'm headed to the Meridies Kingdom Arts and Sciences Fair tomorrow.  In Ala-friggin-bama.  Yes, folks, strange as it sounds, I am only about an hour from the Alabama border.  Scary, huh?

They are letting me teach a Storytelling class--which ought to be interesting, because I've never taught a storytelling class before.  And doing it is way ( Read more... )