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Well, having decided my own ideas for mapping new worlds wasn’t the best (given that Jon frequently wrinkled his nose at them), I came up with a new idea for creating natural looking continents. Yes, that’s right. Cows. The best breeds of cows I’ve found for this type of project are the Ayrshire and Holstein. […]

Coolness! I was poking around online looking for info on Eva’s California Poets in the Schools and a Google search on her name brought up an online version of Metamorphoses. I lost my printed copy long, long ago, but it’s neat to see our work still hanging around out there on the web :) : […]

So far in the last month, I’ve had two fantastic telephone conversations with my sister. She’s so adult now that it’s almost frightening. She’s managed to overcome some incredible obstacles: a drug addiction, smoking, and a history that I’m sure still haunts her. I suppose I can’t ask or expect perfection, but she makes these […]

My heart felt a bit like lead yesterday when Marni called to say she was discontinuing the Teen Writers’ group. I could think of a hundred arguments, all selfish, of course, as to why this is a bad idea. Why walk away from something in its infancy when it hasn’t had the opportunity to be? […]

Yesterday the back of my skull felt perforated as if someone with stiletto heels was dancing around in there and slipped through a few times. Still, I managed to get a few things done with crafting and around the house. Today, my head doesn’t hurt nearly as much, but I’m tired and sluggish. I want […]