My scholarly writing hasn't gotten much of a workout in a long while, so warnings in advance if this is a little clunky ( Read more... )

First off, thank you so much to the following people who backed the Starflyer John Jackson Kickstarter Campaign: lunalovepotter, major_dallas, geezer_also, elka78, lewlinx, hedwig5221, star54kar, lnalvgd, yaaronet, Pili204 and other friends and family on Facebook (whose LJ handles either elude me or do not exist). I am so truly touched by your outpouring of support ( Read more... )

A couple nights ago, I dropped a bit of info about an upcoming illustration project I'm hopefully going to embark on this summer. It's a children's book called "Starflyer John Jackson" - a picture book about a very special pilot (special, because he's five years old) and his adventures around the universe with his crew as they travel to distant ( Read more... )

...and I don't need anything. No presents. No cake. I have everything I could possibly want. This makes me both nervous (as though the universe has some unhappy tricks in store, so I'd better enjoy this while it lasts), and incredulous, because it feels a little like winning the lottery after so many years of beginning private entries with the ( Read more... )

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( ...our gratitude is measured in Harrison's tiny fingers and toes... )

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I'm up early on Saturday mornings, usually stirred out of bed by a combination of aching hips and hunger. (These days "getting up" has a different meaning than "waking up" since I'm now waking about 5 times a night from the bathroom breaks or - my favorite - the baby's seemingly endless hiccuping.) This morning, my husband is asleep in bed, leaving ( Read more... )

Week 29 Status Check:Baby is resting comfortably with his back against Tummy Left (like Stage Left, but in utero), his head down and arms and legs located on Tummy Right. His little feet occasionally like to test the elasticity of my belly by stretching out alllll the wayyyy, jostling whatever I had for dinner/lunch/breakfast before retracting and/ ( Read more... )