Hi everyone. Today, I’m so very pleased to introduce my new website. It was made by Jenny Medford at Websy Daisy, whom I recommend enthusiastically. On my end, everything was straightforward and easy; Jenny was patient, responsive, and imaginative; the parts of website-building that were beyond my abilities were magically lifted from my plate; I… Read more »
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Messy Writing, Mean Cowbirds, and More
Hey there everybody. Here’s a little bit of pandemic distraction for your day. If you’re not interested in messy writing or mean cowbirds, skip to the end for a beautiful piece of interdisciplinary art from Juilliard! First, I have a project (of questionable success) to share. I’m a left-hander who spends a gigantic proportion of… Read more »
Starcom: Nexus, and What It’s Like to Live with an Indie Game Developer
Today Kevin’s game, Starcom: Nexus, releases in Early Access on Steam. It’s a thing of beauty, and also a lot of fun. If you like games that take you into outer space where you get to explore mysterious worlds, build a powerful ship, and explode bad guys, you should buy it, and play it, and… Read more »
Artists Make Hats
Do you know the art of Arizona-based painter Carolyn Schmitz, whose paintings include a series of animals wearing gorgeous natural hats? Go check her out. It’s hard to choose, but I might love the bear with the bluejay on its head best of all. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may… Read more »
In Which We Build a Cabin
Over 40 years ago, Kevin’s dad built this cabin. Guess what we did? The cabin, gingerbread version Here’s how. First, we mixed and chilled the dough. (We used this recipe at Food52, except using muscle power and eventually hands instead of a mixer. It worked fine.) The next day, we rolled it flat… and, using… Read more »
Today’s Election-Free Zone: Incredible Body-Painting
Japanese artist Chooo-San does the most incredible stuff with face- and body-paint, some of it creepy and scary, some of it just plain beautiful. Here’s a representative collection of her stuff at My Modern Met. Reminds me that I need to sort out the makeup for my (much less spectacular) Halloween costume, which I promise… Read more »
In Which We Do Boda Borg
It’s October…. so we did Boda Borg! Without a doubt, one of my favorite monthly new things so far. Oh my gourd, it was fun. What’s Boda Borg? I’ll explain best I can, but first, for those readers who know what it is and are worried that this post will contain clues or cheats, I… Read more »
My Mother Made Me a Hat
So, the movers are coming tomorrow, and though I’m surrounded by exquisite disarray, I feel this is the moment to blog pictures (taken by Kevin) of a very special (perhaps even magical) hat. Because now is the time to celebrate beautiful things. :o) My regular readers know that I knit. Well, my mother knits on… Read more »
The Book Group
Some industry news: my marvelous agent, Faye Bender, formerly of the Faye Bender Literary Agency, is forming a partnership with three other fabulous agents, Julie Barer, Brettne Bloom, and Elisabeth Weed, to form a new literary agency. They’re called The Book Group. ((1) Isn’t that a great name, and (2) how was that name not… Read more »
Wow
I swear that one of these days I’m going to write a substantive post with, like, words and stuff. Until then… If my fairy godmother shows up one day, she had better be aware that I expect no less than this dress. Have you seen this dress? It’s made of recycled and discarded Golden Books…. Read more »
