Month: January 2013

I made it, but forgot to share it. I think it’s rather nice. Cultivate and maintain the beginner’s mind. I won’t be becoming a Zen Buddhist, although I must thank various buddhist/taoist texts as well as marshal arts instructors for giving me this vocabulary and encouraging this practice. I will be trying to maintain joyful,…

I’m glad I spent an hour getting my calendar in order (even if it’s a little bit scary to see September filling up). Dear Ms Moon shall be performed on the stage for the first time on January 26 in Portland – I must book bus tickets! I love what the Pulp Stage did with…

Yesterday was a nice, gentle, thinkey kind of practice from Mike Hammer. I certainly felt more graceful afterwards. A big takeaway is that I need to work on my left foot in crossovers. I kick back when I should be pushing sideways. Which might have been feedback I’ve heard before (certainly I try to avoid…

I make my own war paint.

Last night on my way to crit group I joked that I wished I’d brought a flashlight and pocket knife. West Seattle doesn’t do much in the way of streetlights. I have a flashlight app on my phone that works rather well and I used it extensively last night. It may have got me into…

Rat City’s Roller Derby season is about to start, so we kicked off the season in style at Belltown Pub. The season kickoff party raised funds for the Georgia Peaches Puppy Rescue, so there were many dogs at the bar and much in the way of squeeee. So many well behaved beautiful animals hanging out.…

1) Crows throw lumps of dirt on your verandah, but you have to wait for the soil to thaw before you can scrape it up. 2) Someone posts on Facebook that she can see the sun. You look over your shoulder, say ‘woah!’ and excitedly run outside to photograph the sky because it is blue.

Home from practice. We worked on crossovers, juking and other fun jammer skills. My skills are finally getting to a point where I can use more of my height to my advantage. I have a long stride and I can get a lot of power, can being the operative word. I used to put down…

Yesterday I managed to get up to page 302 out of 567 pages (don’t worry in book formatting the page count is lower). Slow going, but worthwhile. Most of the changes in this editing pass are tightening up language, correcting tenses and deleting the occasional paragraph. I almost wimped out on my workout last night,…

What are you doing over here? There’s guest art by Erik Owomoyela over on the Things Without Arms and Without Legs website! In other news I’m at page 254 of 574 of my novel. Reading it out loud is slow going, but I’m removing words that don’t pull their weight. Sometimes I even add words.…