sambear did his weekend report—I’m behind on mine!
Biographies
I’m asking for help from our Library Goddesses for someone on one of my mailing lists. She sent this request to the list, and I can’t find the answer: “Back in the late 60’s when I was in second and…
Re-parenting
I’m re-reading a book I read a long, long time ago, The 12 Steps to Self-Parenting for Adult Children. I don’t twelve-step, but I remembered having such a book and was looking for it to loan out to a friend.…
Short Attention Span Cyn
Hey, goddessinga! shadowkatt is wearing the Goddess earrings you gave her for the first time! She had the date on which she could change out her starter earrings on her calendar and she was incredibly excited. It’s the first time…
New Liaden Fan
Katie began reading Partners in Necessity, the first Liaden Universe omnibus, last night. The child who has zero interest in reading science fiction stayed with the book until she couldn’t really keep her eyes open last night, then popped out…
Radical Honesty
sambear just said “Are you doing that Radical Honesty stuff these days?” I’m not quite sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, yes, I have been reading that book. And once you get past some of the…
Writing
I’ve been reading Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. All this stuff about writing practice has me considering starting a journal just for that purpose.
House & Kid Nattering
I’m thinking of using this banned books list as a shopping list. I’ve read many of the ones on the list, but not all of them. Okay, I have no need to have American Psycho in the house (wasn’t that…
Books, Babies, Friends
Home again, home again, jiggity jig… We went out to get Katie’s new history book at Borders—she whipped through the last one. And on the way, got a call from rasilio saying that _starrgirl_ is having contractions. So we turned…
New Mag
Hey cybrcat – have you seen Grace yet? It’s supposed to be something of a replacement for Mode, and I know you liked it. I haven’t seen a copy. Some folks in the size acceptance community haven’t been thrilled, saying…