Top Ten Weird Weather

Just for Laughs, Speculative Science

While we’re discussing Hurricanes and other gifts of nature, check out this list on LiveScience. My favorite would have to be the Great Balls of Fire,  but they all send my muse diving for a pen to write down all the ideas–just after she grabs an umbrella.

In the Company of Misery

Home in the Rookery

This morning I met a forlorn little fellow, a stomach bug.  He wandered into our house looking for company.  He’d had such a rough time of late, nobody wanting him, everybody hating him, that I let him stay. I can’t say the visits going well, though, as my life-long friend, my body’s immune system, has taken

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Blogging Legalities

Blogging, Rumblings, Writing

Jordan recently had a reader start spouting at him and generally hefting the law in his face, so he posted a link to a Legal Guide for Bloggers.  I thought I’d post it here but skip the drama, at least for today. What I find interesting is how often, when faced with someone willing to go

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Pining After a Rejection

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Do you ever get the feeling that you just want news?  Because I have several stories that have been out for awhile, and because I’m used to getting rejections on an almost weekly if not more frequent basis, I’m finding myself checking my inbox for news. Any news. Of course, I’m not such a chit that

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Hurricane Preparedness Week

Home in the Rookery

The National Hurricane Center links to a preparedness site which looks helpful.  A lot of the info we’re already aware of, but a refresher is alwasy a good plan, and emergency packs should be regularly updated. I also had’nt really considered the necessity of having a different plan for the different emergencies a hurricane can

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Writing Stolen Drivel

Writing

I’ve sent my chinese-myth based story back to the muse for more work (and research!), and switched focus to another story that’s been swirling around in my head. I worked on it here and there for a couple days and finished it last night, feeling pleased. This morning I printed it off to read while I

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Lloyd Alexander

Newsy Bits About Writing and Writers

I’m weighing in a bit late, but couldn’t let it go without a note. Lloyd Alexander, author of the Prydain Chronicles, among other books, died on May 17th 2007.  The Washington Post carried a tribute to him in their obituaries.  I particularly enjoyed this quote printed therein: “I used the imaginary kingdom not as a sentimentalized

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With My Eyes Wide Open

Home in the Rookery

I’m wearing contacts! After seven years of dry eyes problems which denied me contacts, I’m finally able to wear them again.  No more looking at the world through smudge-tinted glasses, squinting into the sun, and rubbing at the pinch places on my face every night. Now, instead, I can blink and blink ’cause the silly contact’s folded, lose

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