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1 October 2010 Because Dianne from Holiday Vacations is a genius, Lucinda and I woke up to a charming (really) scene out our window. This was the back garden (remember, this is Oct 1) full of flowers and RAIN. Lots and lots of rain. And ducks. And a river rising steadily while we had breakfast in a lovely little skylight room–the white roof you can just barely make out in between the trees. Love the “whilst.” Just do. Ominous,...

Monday, September 27, 2010-Tuesday, September 28, 2010 DH drives me to airport after spending frantic morning   at last-minute self-employment deluge. Appear to have left without hair brush. Figures. Trip begins auspiciously with gluten-free beer in Delta Terminal bar/sushi bar of the Tucson Int’l (snort) Airport. Guess I shouldn’t snort. They have GF beer. Surrounded by happy travelers with lovely smiles. Sat next to only funny...

What kind of cool thing is this! USB Typewriter. The latent steampunky side of me would SO love to have one of these, but the practical wussy side of me notes that my fingers would get tired and I’d have to return the carriage over and over and over… I’ve become weak. I also don’t have an iPad, so… In other news, I leave for the first ever Annual CraftLit Tour Extravaganza–this year to London, Bath, and...

2010 Harvest Tally. Gaze in awe at the extraordinary tally here. This comes by way of a friend of mine from middle school in Tucson, Arizona. I seem to recall commiserating sitting behind her in our 8th grade English class as we suffered sat through endless 80 word spelling tests and sentence diagramming instruction. Okay, the diagramming was kind of cool. But I wasn’t about to admit that back then. Regardless. I would like to tell you...

So here we are, nine years out from–for better or worse–the most exciting thing to have happened to me, ever. And I wanted to talk a bit this year about the “exciting” thing. The word exciting has come to take on a positive meaning. The original meaning of “excite” was slightly different. Let’s check with our friend, the Oxford English Dictionary. (ksat)  [a. Fr. exciter (= Pr. and Sp. excitar), ad. L....