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Life and KES 27 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
The frelling ME is really ripping a strip off. OKAY. I’VE BEEN PUSHING IT. I’VE STOPPED.* NOW GO AWAY.** Note that Kes, my alter ego in many ways, does not have ME, nor is she going to deve...
Circum-training the American West: part 5 – homeward 26 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
We had one more pair of park volunteers, from Minneapolis to the Wisconsin Dells, discussing the largely urban Mississippi River Park. But they were less experienced than the others, and had much l...
KES, 93 25 Aug 2013 | 04:46 am
NINETY THREE He briefly looked as startled as I felt. But then his face cleared and he said, “You must be Kes from cabin seven. Hi. I’m Jan.” He held out his hand, but this was a blunt, broken...
Fun with your critters 24 Aug 2013 | 04:16 am
Hellterror: Want a lap. Hellgoddess: It’s too hot. Hellterror: Want a lap. Hellgoddess: It’s too hot and I’m wearing shorts. Hellhounds: Zzzzzzzzzzzz. Hellterror: Want a lap. Hellgod...
[Ringing] two funerals and a wedding 23 Aug 2013 | 05:15 am
Although the wedding isn’t till Saturday I didn’t want to waste an opportunity to rip off a title.* I haven’t rung a funeral in over a year, I think—not since Gloriana’s**—and then I’ve rung two i...
A Very Full Sofa 22 Aug 2013 | 04:41 am
The weight of my eyelids is going to crack the toothpicks here any minute and then I will fall face forward onto my keyboard, snoring mightily, and the rest of this post will be xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...
SHADOWS is coming! Win a signed copy! 21 Aug 2013 | 04:16 am
SHADOWS is coming! Publication day is September 26, 2013! Tweet it, Facebook it, blog it and you will be entered in a random drawing for a personalized signed copy of Shadows with your choice of d...
I could use LESS fabulous blog material, thank you. 20 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
Under the ‘no good day goes unpunished*’ category . . . Saturday night, when I was slightly beyond dead tired from my interesting day gallivanting across the countryside and hanging off strange** b...
Happy Birthday Hellhounds* 19 Aug 2013 | 04:56 am
They are SEVEN YEARS OLD. I don’t believe this. I’ve lived in New Arcadia for nine years. We—as we, I mean, Peter had been there for centuries—were only at the old house for thirteen years and t...
KES, 92 18 Aug 2013 | 03:32 am
NINETY TWO I didn’t think there was anything left between us and climbing into Merry and driving out to Cold Valley, six potted rose bushes, deinonychus and an orc farm. And Caedmon. Caedmon wou...
