In anticipation of a BIG WORK THING that may come out next week, I have shoved the hosting of the American gorge-fest known as Thanksgiving off on my foreign-born sister in law.  She's very excited to take the mantle from me and rightfully intimidated.  I keep saying, no, really, let other people bring vegetables, bread, desserts, liquor, ( Read more... )

Or Happy New Year in Romanian.

I hope you all had a good year. There is a very amusing posting on Tumblr right now lamenting the loss of Live Journal.

fandomlikefinewine:

Trying to figure out Tumblr after being on LJ for ten years.

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So, in a fit of holiday giving, and because there were SO MANY awesome prompts in a fandom I know well, I ended up picking up 2 treats ( Read more... )

So happy Tuesday after Happy Cat Sacrifice Day! By whose authority am I back and work?

Easter dinner for 20 was fabulous though I'll assume my jet lagged state was responsible for the gross over-estimation of food (coupled with my epic failure at  math). I also had to prepare for 2 readings at the church’s Easter Vigil mass (Moses parting the Red ( Read more... )

I spotted this on io9 when I was in Rome (who got it from Tiny Letter who in turn got it from C.S. Lewis' Letters to Children).  I wanted to reprint it here, as it is just lovely.  Lewis is writing to an American fan named Joan Lancaster in June of 1956 about the craft of writing.  I infer from it that Joan must have included  a picture of herself ( Read more... )

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So, here we go, the recipe exchange.  In selecting a few things to get going, I went to those items that are fixed in memory, either fondly or in horror.  The two I offer I’m pretty certain are unique enough to have not been much seen before but they are also part of holiday traditions for me. Here is the opportunity to share with others the ( Read more... )

EDIT:  I forgot to add the real reason for my post!  British super mystery writer PD James has written Pride and Prejudice fan fic.  Death Comes to Pemberley

Actually, it isn't, in my experience.  I am fine, humming along, though my desire for massive quantities of baking wars with my desire to not eat all the cookies.For those of you who find this ( Read more... )

Narrowhaven at the turn of the year was a very cold and dreary place.  He pulled the woolen scarf up around his neck and flexed his stiffening hands in the fingerless gloves.

“The third column adds to 342 per share,” Lady Willa said from her seat on the table.

Only a Narnian would not be perturbed that a Talking Rat was so adept at ( Read more... )

 Another sharp realization hit him with the force of a bullet.  Edmund’s telegram wrote of seeing Casp in N.  He had since learned that indeed Susan Pevensie had used Caspian as her cover to run an SOE agent out of the British Embassy, and so effectively, Intrepid had promised her to Colonel Buckmaster and Vera Atkins at some point when she could ( Read more... )