Recent browsing

Some things I’ve read online recently:
Melissa Ray Davis’ birth story - Melissa has years of wonderful journal writing online, which has sadly, but understandably, become rather sporadic since the birth of her son. The story of his birth is a beautiful and very intense piece of writing, and actually made me think briefly about the [...]

Name changes

While musing vaguely on blog aesthetics, I decided that it was too terribly dull to refer to my partner by his initial, especially when my own pseudonym is merely a variation on that same initial. “He needs a cool name,” I thought to myself. “A character name.” So I called him at [...]

Administration

When Blogger went down on the weekend (and ate one of my posts), I fiddled around in the settings trying to fix it, and somehow prevented people leaving comments. Woops. If you had an urge to comment in the last few days, and were unable to, please feel free to do so now.
Actually, I really [...]

Cassie

Cassie is coming to stay for a few days in a mere week and a half, and I keep noting down things that have to be done before she arrives. Clean keyboard, in case she uses the computer and goes home in disgust. Plan flexible itinerary. Scrub shower. Try to minimise the smell of yeast [...]

Favourite Blogs

My everchanging and evolving, and very, very long list of blogs that I love to read. They’re vaguely divided, inasmuch as it is possible to do so. Of course, there are many blogs which fit into more than one category, which is very annoying of them, so I have randomly plonked them into whatever area [...]