Monthly Archives: May 2011

A publishing dilemma (for the reader)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by dichroic

Cat Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is now out (Here’s her talking about it, with links to a few places it’s for sale. It’s a wonderful book; I’ve read it and I … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Niebling (a bedtime story for someone who has not yet woken up)

Posted on May 12, 2011 by dichroic

Once Upon a Time (which is when all the best things happened, a baby was born to a Boy and Girl. (And if the Boy and Girl were secretly a King and Queen when they closed their doors and no … Continue reading →

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send in the dwarves … don’t bother, they’re here

Posted on May 9, 2011 by dichroic

I’m getting really tired of being on the casualty list. First there were allergies for a week or so in February. Then I was better for a week, then I got the Cough that Wouldn’t Die. I was finally at … Continue reading →

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time management (also injury management)

Posted on May 5, 2011 by dichroic

It is 9:04 and my husband just walked in. When he called me at 6, after the ostensible end of his workshop, he said he’d be home by 7. ………It was a project planning workshop, for our new product. You … Continue reading →

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the writer-blog-equivalents of their time

Posted on May 3, 2011 by dichroic

I’ve always liked anthogies of authors’ essays about books, their own or others, and My First Book is a good one. But wow, Marie Corelli was a bitch. I think I’d have liked Rider Haggard, though. (Also, Ruth Golding is … Continue reading →

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we think there’s a problem. we just don’t know what it is.

Posted on May 3, 2011 by dichroic

The US State Department has just issued what may be the vaguest travel / terror alert ever: The U.S. Department of State alerts U.S. citizens traveling and residing abroad to the enhanced potential for anti-American violence given recent counter-terrorism activity … Continue reading →

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the Oregon trail

Posted on May 2, 2011 by dichroic

We’re back. I am tired (jetlagged) and sore, having pulled a rib muscle (gardening injury!). I guess that means it was a good vacation. Short version: We spent a few days at our house near Eugene, then we drove down … Continue reading →

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