Laurel Winter is now blogging

It's all timing.

I've been trying to lure Laurel Winter (dear friend, poet and fantasy writer, see Growing Wings) to start blogging for years. And dammit, dammit, dammit, at Minicon I came by to join the conversation with her too late, about fifteen minutes after she finally caved--so some weasley opportunist set her up on Blogger instead of LiveJournal. (*Curses*)

Oh, well. I immediately set up an RSS feed and will try to console myself with that. But I'm still sorta mad.

See her dip her toe into the water at l_a_winter.

Easter Tarot reading

As we have done for the last, oh, ten years or so, Laurie Winter (l_a_winter did my traditional Easter tarot reading for me on Sunday. She used the Robin Wood deck.

Before we started, we talked a little about the question. I had been thinking all weekend that for years I've asked variations on the same question, something to the effect of, what do I need to know about getting the writing started again, or opening up my creativity or something. I thought about something that Laurie told me once a couple of years ago, that continuing to do the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result is the definition of craziness. So this year I decided to make my question as open-ended as possible:

What do I need to know?

In my attempt to try to do something different, I didn't so much shuffle the cards as sort of smear them about on the table and then re-stack them. Since Laurie wasn't sure how the cards were oriented before I started, we decided to skip paying attention to reversals.

( The reading )

Happy birthday, Mike

Today, April 10, would have been Mike Ford's (John M. Ford) 50th birthday.

Happy birthday, Mike. We miss you. Dreadfully.

There will be a gathering at Dreamhaven Books tonight in his honor, but elisem warns that the pub gathering afterwards may be rescheduled if the snow that has been threatening all day starts.
Love,
Peg

(P.S.: If you haven't done so yet, do consider making a donation to the John M. Ford Book Endowment Fund in his honor.)

My day

5:30 a.m. wake up, check e-mail
5:45 get dressed, put on makeup, hector other family members into getting up
6:20 eat breakfast, read newspaper
7:00 make lunch
7:10 make coffee to take in my to go cup
7:25 outside and load up the bike
7:30 bike to work
8:05 arrive at work
8:10 change into work clothes
8:15 at desk to begin work day
10:45 take fifteen minute walk across Stone Arch Bridge
12:45 lunch
1:30 back at desk
3:00 start usual fifteen minute afternoon walk across Stone Arch Bridge but decide to retreat (too cold)
4:30 end of work day. Change into biking clothes
4:40 load up bike, head for home
5:15 arrive home
5:20 check e-mail, read LJ
6:10 leave to pick Delia up from Girl Scout field trip at television station
6:30 arrive at television station
6:50 stop at Seward Co-op with Delia, pick up a few groceries and take out dinner for me and the girls (chicken drumsticks for them, sushi for me)
7:10 arrive home, serve dinner
7:25 go upstairs, start making Quicken entries and filing financial paperwork
8:40 send Delia up to bed
8:45 leave to go to the dojo
9:00 arrive at dojo, start cleaning
10:30 finish cleaning, head home
10:50 finish this LJ entry

*falls over*