This morning, Natalie requested that when she gets home, we make a bunch of paper airplanes and fly them over her like confetti. She's working on reliably making planes that fly more-or-less straight. I trust that this will serve her well in school ( Read more... )

Via bbbsg, via bearsir"...I've developed the habit of thinking of the Winter Solstice, the longest night, as a time to sit up and tell stories ( Read more... )

We all have stories that get told again and again. I was prodded into telling one of mine, tonight, to dancingwolfgrrl. It made me think, do I have a set list of stories I tell? I must. ( So I started to think about when something stops being repeating yourself and starts being a bit of personal mythology, and I made an lj poll. )

I've seen a few people pointing to this, but I think ozarque had it right in asking people to write their own. I'll just lift this text from her journal, partly taken from Wired:

"We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ('For sale: baby shoes, never worn.') and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, ( Read more... )