Archive for May, 2008
Weekend Site-Seeing
If you haven’t yet, please read Thursday’s post. It’s important. I hate to cover it up with new posts, but I don’t want to stop posting, so this is my compromise. I have a thing for color. To be specific, I have a thing for bold, saturated colors. I literally live in them. I adore [...]
Alaska Gardening 2008
If you haven’t yet, please read yesterday’s post. It’s important. I hate to cover it up with new posts, but I don’t want to stop posting, so this is my compromise. For better or worse the 2008 garden is pretty much in. I have a book this year to help me out: Alaska Gardening Guide, [...]
I Oppose Current Orphan Works Legislation
Artists need deadlines, I guess. We’re coming down to the wire on Orphan Works legislation in Washington, and artists are finally organizing to oppose it. I applaud those far-sighted folks who saw this coming and followed it carefully. I preferred to ignore it while I could, let those with more political inclination take care of [...]
Team Writing
My online critique group is on a mission. We all want to ramp up the emotion in our WsIP (Works In Progress). To that end, we are taking classes or reading lecture notes from Margie Lawson. Margie is a psychologist, among other things. A practicing psychologist. Who better to explore emotion in literature? I was [...]
Beetle Wings in Embroidery
I am currently taking an Independent Correspondence Course on The Art of Teaching Embroidery through the Embroiderers’ Guild of America. I need to write a research paper. Obtaining research materials has been a bit of a challenge, but I finally got to the library and came home with sixteen books. I think my chosen subject [...]
Knitting Socks
For me, winter in Alaska means wool socks, lots of them: typically a thin inner sock topped by a thick outer sock, both of which need to fit into a cozy slipper or boot. Sometimes there’s even a neoprene or other high-tech fabric liner sock. When Mike and I began caretaking, I decided I would [...]
The Golden Compass and Shug
What’s on my mp3 player? The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman. Yes, I’m am only just now getting around to reading this. And I’m not reading it, but rather listening to it, courtesy of Listening Library and the Palmer Public Library. I’m not very far along, but I am loving the reading. It’s read by [...]
Weekend Site-Seeing
Spencer Glacier, during a ride to Grandview on the Alaska Railroad. One of the blogs that I read regularly is In a Minute Ago by Sharon B. The blog is just a tiny part of her Web offerings. Sharon astounds me. She is a super-creative and super-talented needle artist who seems to have found a [...]
Summer Blog Blast Tour and Dennis Cass
Playing catch-up (not to be confused with the red stuff kids put on hotdogs). Today is the almost-last day of the Summer Blog Blast Tour. The tour, organized by reviewer and blogger, Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray, includes kid- and teen-lit author interviews at a number of kid-lit blogs. It’s a great way to learn [...]
“When it’s springtime in Alaska…”
“…it’s forty-below.” So says the Johnny Horton song (number 6–you can hear a sample and read lyrics). When I get up in the morning it’s generally 40-above these days. It’s been a chilly spring, though, and things are just beginning to get green. On Tuesday, I spotted this (yes, on the way to the mailbox): [...]
