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I’ve just worked out that I’ve lived here, in the state where I now live, for a third of my life. How is that possible? Well, we moved here 12 years ago today (happy anniversary!) and tomorrow I’m 36 (happy birthday). Wow, of all the places I have lived, this is the one I have… Continue reading A Third

Apparently my reporter’s instincts are still in there somewhere. Last night I was at a concert when the lights flickered out. There was a huge storm raging overhead and it killed the power for miles around. Luckily for us, the musicians were consummate professionals and just kept on playing, unplugged. As I listened, I was… Continue reading Reporter Instincts

It’s hot out there. It’s going to get up to 98 for the severalth day in a row and the humidity is high, making it feel even hotter. The state issued a heat warning, saying ‘stay out of the sun, get into some air conditioning and drink lots of water’. For Scots this is hard… Continue reading Phew!

Historians have just identified a previously unknown portrait of Henry VIII with his children, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. I was quite surprised, because, given their dynastic wranglings you don’t expect to see all of them in the one room together (not, of course, that they necessarily were. It’s not a photograph after… Continue reading Tudors

Ever since Doctor Who started back up, people have been asking Neil Gaiman if he’s going to write an episode. He said “they haven’t asked” initally. Then recently, he had dinner with Stephen Moffat, who has just been announced as the new Head Who Guy. When asked if the subject of his writing an episode… Continue reading It Had To Happen

Well, I just had my first cup of caffeinated morning coffee in about six weeks. Woooo! I’m scrubbin’ bathrooms, I’m dancin’ up and down stairs with laundry, I’m swabbing the deck (literally) and wondering what else I can do before the crash…

Funny how May and June, after the new beginnings of springtime, have become a season of endings. Beginnings too, of course, because endings are the pause before a new beginning, but today I’m feeling the endings, sharply.

So I finally got to see Stephanie Pearl-McPhee! You have to understand I’ve been reading this woman’s blog for over two years and have been trying to get to see her for almost as long. Each time she has come to the area it has been a more-than-an-hour’s drive away and something has come up… Continue reading Me 'n' The Yarn Harlot in Philly!

I love writing! I don’t know how I could have forgotten this, because it was all I ever really loved to do as a child (apart from reading, of course. And to a slightly lesser extent playing music). But I just LOVE writing. I’ve been carving out time here and there to work on my… Continue reading I LOVE Writing!

This post is in response to Blog-Friend Spit-up-and-Stiletto’s wonderful post today, lamenting the fact that her younger sister is moving to New Mexico, which is not much closer than my family is to me. And they belong to a whole other continent. She wants to know where the transporters are. Well, S&S, I can only… Continue reading Learning To Live at Long-Distance