This week
I’ve been busy dealing with all kinds of fiddly things this week, including a zillion medical appointments, but, hey, we’re off to…
Read moreI’ve been busy dealing with all kinds of fiddly things this week, including a zillion medical appointments, but, hey, we’re off to…
Read moreLast night I went to a private event for the Women’s Funding Alliance. We were feasted by Seattle celebrity chefs (including Becky…
Read moreIt was rather odd watching Doctor Who (my very brief impressions here) and Game of Thrones back to back. They’re so different…
Read moreI watched the Season 6 (or 32) premiere of Dr Who last night. My first Dr Who in years. Wow, the pace…
Read moreThese books arrived this weekend. I’m looking forward to all of them. I love my job! Less fond of crapcam, though. Just…
Read moreAt left is what the place looked like yesterday, all sunshine and birdsong and flowers (I think they’re some kind of hellebore)….
Read moreI had planned a gorgeous series of photos to show you how the garden has suddenly leapt into bloom. And that the…
Read moreI warn you: this is not a terribly coherent post. My frustration level is high. Before I started writing Hild I read…
Read moreToday I’m cross with gods. Anglo-Saxon gods. I’ve been researching them for Hild. They are slippery little bastards. That is, scholars seem…
Read moreFrom: Cindy Thoreson I love the Aud Torvingen series! Always, the last novel in the series, was published in 2007. I’ve been…
Read moreIt’s good. I enjoyed it. And it took me a while to work out that I’m a little disappointed: I was hoping…
Read moreA few days ago at Go Into the Story Scott Myers asked what screenplay viewers wished they’d written. For me that’s easy:…
Read moreFrom: Kida Valérie Charavel Hello, just wanted to share something… Discovered Aud in The Blue Place, and since then, just kept following…
Read moreThis looks as though it might suffer story problems. The beginning made me think, Oooh, creepy! but then the whole thing seemed…
Read moreI loved The Lord of the Rings, book and film. (Not perfect, but damn good.) But I’ve never been excited about the…
Read moreI’ve been waiting to be in a calm, reasonable, orderly frame of mind before writing about Camelot, the new epic mini series…
Read moreConversation in our house yesterday afternoon: “Hey, hon, you know that flooding issue we’ve been having…”“Uh-huh.”“Well, the city’s sending a guy out…
Read moreIf you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I’ll be MC’ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award…
Read moreYesterday I promised you a review of Camelot. I lied. The review will be a bit of a rant, I think, and…
Read moreWe got our new AV set up running at last. The nifty new TiVo Premiere that allows for streaming from Netflix, YouTube,…
Read moreAccording to my calendar, this is what April looks like: Sun, scent of flowers, the zuzz of bumble bees, birdsong, blue skies……
Read moreMusic, video, wit, and scholarship combine to bring you three-minute history primers on iconic subjects (aaaand you can dance to it). Via…
Read moreFor those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…
Read moreToday will be wrestle-with-televisual-technology day at the Griffith-Eskridge household. We got our first TiVo in 1999. We were the only people we…
Read moreLast night I watched the preview of Game of Thrones. The showrunners, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, made a couple of interesting…
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