Oh god. It's Monday, and to add insult to injury, it's the Monday after Daylight Savings Time. Ugh. DNW. Can we just quit fucking with the time? /whine

I survived the weekend. Must survive today too. Probably no time to write on PL today. Not sure I have the brain space either, to be honest. I seem to be having that breathing problem I had a few ( Read more... )

lewisian_gneiss asked me to talk about storytelling and quilts.  Yesterday I went to two quilt guild meetings. The first one had a speaker who gave a talk called "If Quilts Could Talk".  I honestly have no idea what the second lecture was called because I busy with a volunteer duty at the beginning of the talk, so I was distracted, but this woman had written a ( Read more... )

I heard this piece on the radio about princesses and the new movie Brave and it got me to thinking.  I would love to see a story about a princess who isn't fighting an older evil woman, who has a female best friend, and may or may not be a warrior, but she's fighting something and she wins.  Maybe it's time to unpack the original Grimm's Fairy ( Read more... )