Blowing up the Christmas tree
In which I destroy the Christmas tree, twice, and as an added bonus include two special, heart-warming winter scenes—one with a kitten.
Read moreIn which I destroy the Christmas tree, twice, and as an added bonus include two special, heart-warming winter scenes—one with a kitten.
Read moreToday our rescue kitties Charlie and George, are exactly seven months old. Despite being brothers, they are developing very differently.
Read moreIn the New York Times Book Review’s holiday edition I review Robert Harris’s latest novel. It fails—as most ruined-earth novels do. Why? Entropy is a thing, baby.
Read moreUntil I find a new way to destroy the Christmas tree, here are Charlie and George brimming with holiday feelings
Read moreIn just a few months, Charlie and George have taken giant steps in disability consciousness. Their evolution has progressed in leaps and bounds (often while hanging upside down from the curtains or falling in the bath).
Read moreI’m teaming up again with Phinney Books, on Greenwood Avenue, Seattle, to bring you signed, personalised books for the holidays.
Read moreFor the rest of this year and all of next I’m turning down professional invitations of every kind. I have work to do.
Read moreToday is the Feast Day of Hild of Whitby, the anniversary of her death in 680. I mark the day because Hild—and…
Read moreCharlie and George are 10 days shy of 6 months old. They swing wildly between sweet fluffy fuzzballs and manic murdercats. They need new toys. Suggestions?
Read moreThe nicolagriffith Yahoo Group began Sept 11, 1999. Membership, at last count, was 283 people. Twenty years of conversation, peaking in May 2008, is now it’s going away.
Read moreCharlie and George are now 5 months old. One minute they look very grown up, then, in the blink of an eye, they revert to the itty bitty new-to-the-world kitties we brought home two months ago.
Read moreSo Lucky just won the WA State Book Award for Fiction! I’m happy—and surprised. What I want to talk about here is my surprise.
Read moreSaturday 12th October, 7-9pm, Central Library downtown Seattle: Come and party at the Washington State Book Awards!
Read moreKitty report #5, in which Charlie gets home-made visual rehab and begins to adapt to his visual impairment
Read moreVonda N. McIntyre’s first novel, The Exile Waiting will be reissued in October. Preorder it now!
Read moreKitten report, with photos: a neurological accident, amazing recovery, and a very protective brother.
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