The doctors have concluded that my husband's cancer treatment has failed, and he has entered inpatient hospice. Now we wait for the inevitable ( Read more... )

Today is a very, very special day; it is hazelrah1's birthday ( Read more... )

This fic, written in payment for my ALS challenge, is set in lbilover's incredible Woodjin universe. This is entirely out of my own head and may or may not fit with lbilover's vision for her characters and plot arcs. But I assure her, and the rest of you, that it is written in the spirit of utmost love and respect for the delightful and moving world she has ( Read more... )

Tomorrow or the next day, I'm going to be putting my laptop in the shop to fix an increasingly annoying touchpad and keyboard electronics glitch (yaye for extended warranties!). This feels rather like knowing I'm about to have my right hand amputated. But it basically means I'm going to be borrowing computers catch-as-catch-can, and I'll be mostly ( Read more... )

Here is my (late) contribution to this session of Book 2, Chapter 1: Many Meetings. The text is below the cut if you want to read along. My apologies to Elladen and Elrohir if I have mangled their names! :-)

This tale must begin with my dear friend Melissa (aka "Fiver"), who was diagnosed with Lou Gerhig's Disease, or ALS, just before her 35th birthday. ALS is a hideous, vicious disease that gradually but relentlessly deprives its victims of all voluntary and involuntary muscle reaction, eventually resulting in death. And if there's ever a person in ( Read more... )

I haven't forgotten what day it is, but I figured maybe some of y'all could use a chuckle amidst the poignancy, and this is truly one of the funniest things I've seen this year. At Dragon*Con, they tried to break the record for the largest # of people doing the dance from Michael Jackson's "Thriller." I'll bet that NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD do they ( Read more... )

Here is my contribution to this installment of the Reading LotR Aloud project. This excerpt is from Chapter 11 of FotR, "A Knife in the Dark." The text is below the cut for those who wish to read along (or who cannot understand my probably p*ss-poor Elvish!). Soon everyone's readings for Chapters 9 & 10 will be posted at read_lotr_aloud for those who want to hear ( Read more... )

Here is the opening of Chapter 9, "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony." The text is beneath the cut for those who like to read along. Soon everyone's readings for Chapters 9 & 10 will be posted at read_lotr_aloud for those who want to hear it in sequence.

Just squeaking in under the wire!!! Here is my section of Chapter 8, "Fog on the Barrow-Downs." The text is beneath the cut for those who like to read along. Soon everyone's readings for Chapters 7 & 8 will be posted at read_lotr_aloud for those who want to hear it in sequence.