it was unseasonably warm saturday (cresting at sixty) and sunny enough so we took another trip to the detroit zoo. i had long intended to get a snow globe depicting the rackham fountain found there and its bear pair; intended to since i went to the premiere of coraline in february of 2009 -- the movie featured fairly prominently just such a snow ( Read more... )

neil gaiman gives me to know that today is national poetry day in the united kingdom (within national poetry month) and that the year's theme is stars. thus, though i'm only a quarter british, i'm glad to have completed this in time to share it today. and i will pretend that i kept to the form of the english sonnet (as best i could) in honor of ( Read more... )