Just when I think things are calming down, real life has an ugly way of slapping me in the face. I’ve been busy taking care of other things before I could return my attention to my blog. (In fact, as I was writing this, I was called away to deal with a small family emergency. […]
Yeah, I know. I promised to be back and then I disappeared for two months. Things have been happening in my life that I’m not ready to talk about. It’s been a perfect storm of personal and day job disasters that have knocked me off kilter. It’s affected all my writing, including this blog. But
Despite my real life attempting to keep me from attending, I made it to Worldcon 76 in San Jose. It started on Wednesday night when I met with a knitting friend to take her to a local yarn store. We then had dinner and caught up before the start of the con. Thursday, the con
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Quick update. I will be at Worldcon 76. And this year, I have a few events I’ll be participating in — Saturday 8:00 PM – Masquerade Monday 11:30 AM – Reading Monday: 1:00 PM – Autographs with myself and Theodora Goss Otherwise you can find me around. I’ll be the woman with the red crochet
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I went to Con-Volution last weekend and had fun. This year I had planned to be an attendee. No workshops, no Masquerade. After an emotionally intense few months, I wanted to go and hang out with friends and just be. Unfortunately, I had to work at my day job until 4:30 PM. By then the route
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This is a friendly reminder that this post may contain spoilers for my 2018 Masquerade Costume. I’m trying not to put in spoilers, but you may be able to piece together what I’m making. Read at your own risk. One of the main pieces I have to construct is a poncho in camouflage colors. It
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I went to BayCon and had fun, but came home with an epic case of Con Crud that is trying to turn into bronchitis. So a few quick points before I toddle back to a cough medication induced haze. I won Best in Show for my X-Wing Pilot costume. Carolyn Hill has awesome pictures of
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I’m very good at making things like deadlines. Making sure I hit them is another matter entirely. Case in point. Right now I am frantically knitting away at the costume for the masquerade at BayCon. This is a deadline I’ve known about since this time last year when I first had the idea for the
What a weekend. Things started early Thursday morning when my mother was showing signs of what could have been either kidney failure or heart failure. I got her into the doctor and have never been so relieved to hear the words “I think it’s pneumonia.” Her tests came back clean and she is responding to
I’ve been invited to be a guest at Con-Volution, September 30 to October 2nd in Burlingame. This year I’ve been put on both writing and costuming panels. I’m listed under my legal name for various reasons (like I forgot to mention to use my pen name for writing panels). But trust me, I’m there. Here’s
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