"You can have the gift of invisibility," she said as she passed her hands over my flesh, "but it comes with a price. Use it wisely, because every time you do, it will become harder and harder to come back from being invisible to being someone others will see, and someday you won't be able to come back at all ( Read more... )

On this, the day leading into the Longest Night, I share my favouritest fable of the season written anywhere, any time: The Day of the Mouse God's Sun (completely worksafe, kidsafe, all safe.)

The Day of the Mouse God's Sun

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The long-term trend of folks away from the blogosphere to the more expedient/safely-superficial platform of FB has left a kind of quiet space that, frankly, I'm enjoying. I'm certainly using the different spaces for different purposes, but I'm aware with my own writing habits that all the levity goes to FB (brevity being the soul of wit for true, I ( Read more... )

Thank you to all who responded to this post yesterday, and yes, siderea, is was partly driven by your recent anthropological recipe about vitalized blog communities and what builds themThe pulse-taking was mostly a desire to gauge the state of "audience" on a platform and a personal practice in slow decline, an attempt to gather information before making ( Read more... )

It occurs to me to note: tomorrow is my anniversary - EIGHT YEARS of blogging almost daily on LJ, 12 years of blogging online in general ( Read more... )

The further_ado account is not entirely dead, but it does lie fallow for many seasons at a time:-P

http://further-ado.livejournal.com/14657.html

Those of you who are still here at least, put your proverbial money where your mouth is (or at least your typing fingers), and play along to generate some potentially interesting and readable content for everyone!

(stolen from baronessekat, who stole it from someone, who stole it from someone, who... you know the drill.)

Everyone has things they blog about ( Read more... )

I still dislike living in Outer Guam, but I really enjoy being only ten minutes (or less) from where I work (or "work"). It renders palatable days like this, on which I have supervision scheduled for 10am, and no clients before 5pm; it's lovely to come home for the intervening six hours, and not feel like I'm wasting the gas to do so ( Read more... )

Here's how this works ( Read more... )