Burblings
In which I prove that absolutely anything can be made nerdy if you try hard enough...
Come for the K-pop…stay for the grammar
Last fall I fell in love with K-pop. It started casually enough, with a music video or two. But it grew. Oh boy, did it grow. My K-pop favourites playlist currently has 86 groups on it, and I have a page-long list of groups to check out. I write album release dates on my calendar…
Read MoreOn worldbuilding: Susan Mallery and the rich world of Fool’s Gold, California
This year I got hooked on romance novels. I don’t know about you, but I was raised with a general attitude of scorn towards all things romance-novel-y. My mom called them “bodice-rippers” and wouldn’t have been caught dead reading one, so, even though I’m a grown-ass woman who can (surely!) make up her own mind…
Read More“To fist” or not “to fist,” that is the question
Sometimes word choices are technically correct…but they just plain bug me. Case in point: last month I read a couple of books where the word “fisted” was used as a verb. Noticeably often. It really bothered me. I couldn’t think of a single instance where I’d seen the word “fisted” used as a verb like…
Read MoreFrom the archives: Transformation
I wrote this poem for my old blog, Spirit Moves Dance, in 2012. The blog is gone, but the poem remains. It will not always feel good, This growing. This stretching beyond the boundaries of the known, The comfortable. It will not always feel safe, This learning and relearning of your own abilities This reexamining…
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