We’ve got about two feet of snow – it started about 6 pm last night and has yet to stop. My dog thinks it is the best thing in the world. So does my husband – we’ve ventured out twice
Creating the Right Atmosphere
Perhaps you’re the sort of person who can write anywhere – even at the dining room table while your offspring scream bloody murder and beat each other with foam swords. You are a lucky person. For the rest of us
Author Websites
So, I’ve reached a point in my career where I probably need to stop mooching off of free services and create my own website. The problem? The last time I had my own website, I was sixteen and firmly believed
2011 in review and Happy New Year!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway
Happy Holidays! (Also, Landsquid.)
I hope your weekend treated you well, that you ate too much and spent too much time with those that you love, and that you got at least one thing that made your day. My husband got me a Wacom
I Blame the Dog
If you pay any sort of attention to my blogging schedule, you know it typically follows a M/W/F schedule, and that I tend to warn you if there’s going to be complications or missed days. If you’re that sort of
Blog on Hiatus until Sept. 16
I will not be able to keep up the blog while I am in Peru, so I must bid you farewell for now, Squiders. There will be a post on Sept. 16. Have a picture of a landsquid. (With a
Happy 4th!
I hope all my fellow Americans are having a happy Fourth of July, full of fun, family, and fireworks. My own has been rather fantastic, though I may have sunburned my entire body, but you guys know how the sun
Alpaca Poetry
Once again, the Friday Round-up did not get rounded up, so today we will be discussing alpacas. How can you not like alpaca? They are fluffy and evil. I submit the following as evidence (and also dare you not to
Of Turtleducks and Self-Folding Plesiosaurs
To continue our series on strange fictional animals, today I bring you turtleducks and self-folding plesiosaurs. (As evidenced by the title.) Isn’t it interesting how the oddest things catch on? As an example, I like terrible jokes. Jokes like “A
