Category: News update

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.…

Roller Derby is such a satisfying thing to play. I was sad when the scrimmage ended, I wasn’t nearly exhausted enough. It felt really good to be out there and my team mates are wonderful. It’s great when it feels like both teams are working hard, throwing themselves in with gusto, but no one is…

Horrific Miscue are a writing critique group I’ve been part of for a few years now. Where has the time gone?  Tonight Mike and I had the pleasure of hosting the Christmas Party and present battle. It was delicious and fun – so nice to see people having a good time. I like to be…

Mike and I were picking up last minutes supplies at Wholefoods last night when I realized I was ravenously hungry. I remembered that Wholefoods will cook almost anything from their seafood and meat section for a $2 fee and so we decided to try their cooking. I wandered up and down the counters, but nothing…