Archive for October 2009

My Halloween Spirit Done Got Up and Walked Off

In Halloween, Miscellany on 29 October 2009 with no comments

I have a sink­ing feel­ing this is going to be the worst Halloween in a long while.
I sus­pect the com­bi­na­tion of unsea­son­able rain (for which, don’t get me wrong, I am very grate­ful, for we’ve been suf­fer­ing drought con­di­tions since last year) and crappy econ­omy had led the folks in my neigh­bor­hood to forego the usual […]

To Bake A Cake

In Baking, Family, Miscellany on 26 October 2009 with no comments

I love to bake. The pri­mary rea­son I made Gracey Daylittle a pie baker is because it gave me an excuse to make lots of pie in the name of research.
But I, myself, am pri­mar­ily a bread and cake baker.
Today is my husband’s 35th birth­day, and I am mak­ing him an Italian cream cake. When […]

Books for October

In Books, Reading on 22 October 2009 with no comments

I did a lousy job read­ing this month, pri­mar­ily because I was run­ning around like a mad­man try­ing to launch my own web­site on time. Oh well. There’s always next month.
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro.
I admit that I’m not the most patient reader on the planet. I don’t expect nov­els to get to […]

Monsters On Parade

In Fiction, Halloween, Writing on 21 October 2009 with no comments

As the days begin to shrink in earnest and the tem­per­a­ture drops below what my California-reared skin can com­fort­ably lounge about in, mon­sters begin to claw their way out of my sub­con­scious and into the fore­ground. They whis­per, they cajole, they bark and they howl. Sometimes this is haunt­ing. Mostly, it’s extremely lib­er­at­ing.
Even as a […]

“All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live">“All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live

In Fiction, Narrative, Web Development, Writing on “All’s Fair in Love & War, Texas” is live">20 October 2009 with 1 comment

After months of prepa­ra­tion, All’s Fair in Love and War, Texas is finally live.
I real­ize it might not look like it to the untrained eye, but this web­site was a lot of work. (Work which, I have to admit, I mostly enjoyed.) It’s built on Wordpress, but it was my first attempt at build­ing a WP theme from scratch. […]