Deep Sky Anchor

1) I’ve found homes for fifty of my short stories and two of my novels.

2) Lightweight sitcoms, such as Parks & Recreation and Modern Family. Continue reading “Five Things I’m Grateful For, Day Two”

One of my cousins is posting five things she’s grateful for, for five days. I’ve decided to do that too.

1) Great new songs on Sesame Street all the time, like this one (“A Lovely Sunny Day” featuring Zachary Levi): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtvPlFty1rE Continue reading “Five Things I’m Grateful For, Day One”

When your hit points are low enough, any blow can one-shot you.

We watched the Vaux’s swifts roost at 17th and Agate tonight — a swirling tornado of specks of ash, so quiet you could hear their wings flutter.

“Knock knock.”

“Who’s there?”

“Giraffe.” Continue reading “Elaine’s Latest Joke”

For her snack, Elaine requests: bread topped with sliced cucumbers, topped with graham crackers, topped with more sliced cucumbers. She says that she knows it will someday be a popular snack. I have my doubts. Continue reading “Parenting and Editing”

Dinner at Turtles with a bunch of Wordos is excellent motivation to come home and do a lot of writing.

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After a long night of hiding eggs, the Easter bunny goes square dancing with the pirate cows.

Shoes = chew toys that you store on your feet.

Whose shoes got eaten?

Oh, actually no one’s. Just Wesley gnawing on his own shoes. But he does seem to agree with the dogs on this front.

I put full spectrum light bulbs in one room of my house today, and, oh my goodness, I wish I’d done it ages ago. It looks just like sunlight.

I took a rehabilitated Borg infant to Trek Theatre’s amazing, final performance of “Measure of a Man” tonight. They really captured the heart of the episode.