Oooof. I did not do any heavy lifting. I did move a bunch of light stuff out of the cat-sitting room upstairs, move a large armchair out of the way, move canisters of cat food and a hummingbird feeder in a box and a couple of wastebaskest out of the way as well. Raphael had already moved the box fan and the tick bags (bags containing clothing we ( Read more... )

I just took down the 2015 Minnesota Weatherguide Calendar (it does not do to be hasty about these things), the December photograph in which was a lovely one of a snow- and icicle-encrusted evergreen branch in the foreground, with a wave caught breaking in white spray behind it, and snow- and evergreen-encrusted islands on the horizon, somewhere on ( Read more... )

First! The ebook version of Points of Departure, Pat Wrede's and my collection of all our original Liavek stories plus a new story by Pat and a new collaboration by both of us, telling the often-crossing stories of Granny Carry and the Benedicti family, is on sale for $2.99 from the following vendors ( Read more... )

It's been some time since I posted. I thought I would try dividing things up into smaller posts rather than doing one huge looming one with cut-tags and ending up with a strange interlarding of comments on twelve different pieces of news and six different issues ( Read more... )