Greetings from the road! I am once again traveling in order to clear and clutter my mind. While my end destination is Stanford in time for graduation, there’s a little bit i want to do between now and then. I’ve already spent almost a week in Portland, seeing old friends and making a couple of… Continue reading Fireworks in Portland and My Writing
Hello, all! My life has been insane, and the stress finally caught up to me. I came down sick this week and am only now recovering. Just in the knick of time too, because I’m leaving town this weekend to spend a little time out in the western Washington countryside, the tiny metropolis Portland, my… Continue reading A New Pet-Project and Travel Plans
After everything settled down with my best friend’s unborn twins, he ended up getting hospitalized himself! He’s fine, or will be, or I’m not even sure. He and his partner know how to handle insanity though, so I’m not worried about them now that the little boys are en route to a live birth. However,… Continue reading The End of an Emotional Week
The good news is the surgery went as well for my friend as we could have hoped for. Both of her little boys are now plugging along in her belly, and the doctor is optimistic about the outcome of the pregnancy. Foetuses are so strange. It’s just a pollywog in someone’s tummy that, if unwanted,… Continue reading The Trouble with Twins and Emergency Fetal Surgery
I just finished reading “The Education of Little Tree” this morning, after having been recommended it years ago. It was probably that recommendation that encouraged me to buy it in the first place when I found it at a book sale. I wouldn’t say that this is middle grade or YA, even though it follows… Continue reading The Education of Little Tree – Book Review
I kind of want to give up writing and just drink tea full-time. I’ve gotten to the point where drinking tea is such a sensuous experience that I can’t even focus on a story while I drink. I’ve been challenging myself not to over-indulge my craving for lavender milk tea, but I found a tea… Continue reading My Lavender Love Affair with Tea
A lot of my progressive friends talk about how we need a more sex-positive culture. One of my friends gave me a button that said just that this week: Sex +. It’s a big deal to a lot of people. You know what’s a big deal to me? Excitement. I think we need a more… Continue reading Excitement-Positive Culture
I should have known better than to sign up for the fourteen-day free trial of Ancestry.com. I’ve always been curious about my genealogy, but never enough to do anything about it. I sort of liked having the mystery of my relations floating around, unresolved. There was a romance to it. However, families are full of… Continue reading Great-Great Grand Greathouses and Their Stories
Hello! As you may have noticed if you checked out my last post, the blog has undergone a little bit of a makeover. It’s been a royal drag trying to make sense of WordPress Premium, but so it goes. I’m easily confused by “intuitive” systems that don’t have a logic to them, but are just… Continue reading New and Improved and Confused
There’s something childish, exciting, and quintessentially magical about fairytales. The problem is, most of them are pretty puerile or morbid stories. Either you get the dolled up Disney version of Cinderella, or you go back far enough to the Grimm Brothers’ version where the stepsisters are hacking off parts of their feet in order to… Continue reading Retold Fairytales: A Crossroads of Age and Youth
AUDREY GREATHOUSE 