My life of late has consisted in lounging about at my parents’ home in Gig Harbor, Washington, spending the holidays with family, watching Star Trek, and occasionally seeing Anna to exchange stories of fiction and non-fiction. But now, I embark on my grand adventure: The Search for the Half-Acre Wood!
This adventure is essentially a trip [...]
Last weekend Thomas and I went to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival, which began with meeting ST for brunch and ended with me staring at ST in utter terror. To be fair, it wasn’t ST’s fault that my legs were giving out under me — after all, we had a very pleasant conversation about cats. [...]
Busy days best end with relaxing evenings. Monday, Amy called us up to invite us to the Chinese Gardens on Member’s Night — bring as many guests as you want! Apparently one woman last week brought her entire church group, but fortunately for us there were only a few low conversations and the song-bird tunes [...]
I had a two-part birthday this year: Part the First was held at my parents’ house in Gig Harbor, over the course of a week. We met Grandpa and Dottie and my aunt Sandy for a dinner out, had a wonderful evening with Leslie and ST discussing Lovecraft, atheism, and households, and finally played host [...]
Two hours ago I started my first 10K — and one hour ago I finished with a sprint and a big smile! The longest run in my life, and it was a blast. My dad and I chatted the whole way, effortlessly passing people who were pounding and puffing away. Not that we were going [...]
After years of lusting after Gavin’s fine old Portland house, with its spacious, clean kitchen and bright hardwood floors, I have finally established residence there. Apparently Gavin has long thought about inviting Thomas and I to move in, but he is a long-term thinker… it took much poking and prodding to finally get a stack [...]
I don’t get along with my housemates, and I think I know why. It has to do with group identification, as I wrote about in my thesis. I display the wrong cues — regular hours, neat and tidy, prim and proper, quiet and sensitive. They mistake me for a more stereotypical middle-class white girl, I [...]
I found an injured squirrel on my way back from work today. Its leg was broken, and it dragged itself across the sidewalk to avoid me. I couldn’t bring myself to leave it, so I called my brother at work so that he could find numbers for various animal rescue facilities. After many frantic calls, [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about water systems as of late, in regards to the House. The House being my as-yet imaginary home that I plan to build myself at least once in my lifetime, off-the-grid and self-contained ala an earthship or Living Building. My initial thought is to collect rainwater from the roof — [...]
The Village Building Convergence is like an impossible dream. People from all over come together to create beautiful structures, tasty food, lush gardens, entertaining art projects, and productive communities. How is this possible? The speakers were all trying to answer this question to some extent, or else they came at it the other way around: [...]
