http://www.wordydiva.com Just So Mega L Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:57:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time for me to hang it up. The Wordydiva domain expires at the end of the month, and while I plan to renew it to make sure it stays mine (it's the name of my font family, see), I have no plans to continue blogging here after 31 October. ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=213 That? Is what came out of my garden before blight and all manner of negligence took over. Next year. Here's a soundtrack-in-progress for Fall 2009: Beastie Boys/Shadrach JSBX/Afro Ricochets/Little Bit of More Soundgarden/Fell on Black Days Curve/Fait Accompli Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Love Burns Breaking Circus/Knife in the Marathon Hum/Iron Clad Lou Rodriguez/Rich Folks Hoax Smashing Pumpkins/Starla Black Cab/Hearts on Fire The Go/You Go ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=210 Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, July 19, 2009. Photo by Cody Bralts I took Cody to the Amtrak station Thursday evening for his sendoff to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, with a trip out to Portland to see my mom/visit a couple of ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=209 We're on limited $$ rations (well, more limited than usual) due to camp fees and doctor co-pays and things of that nature, things that always seem to happen at the same/wrong time, so we're cooking from the freezer/fridge as much as possible. This used to be SOP chez B-K, but ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=208 I kind of covet Ed & Janna's chickens We're all in, summerwise. July denotes the beginning of 5 months' worth of celebrations - we started with Cody's 17th birthday on 2 July and will observe our wedding anniversary, Jim's birthday, my birthday, and Lilly's birthday, in August, September, October, and November, ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=168 Still here, yo. Have been working a lot and thinking a lot about... well, all kinds of things. Today's walk around the track was a bit of a revelation, but in a rather unimportant kind of way, i.e., no epiphanies, just arrivals. Perhaps something of more substance soon. I'm terrible at keeping ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=207 I'm not one to complain, usually, but really. http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=206 It came to my attention yesterday from both good friends and my son (!) that my blog hasn't been updated in nearly a month. This is mainly because I was feeling (and still do feel) that my blogging is more a familiar refrain of What I've Been Doing rather than ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=205 When Cody was 4 years old, he wrote me a note for Mother's Day that read, "You are bunny candy to me." Easter that year had clearly made an impact. The phrase entered the B-K family lexicon, of course, so today was Bunny Candy Day. We are not churchgoing folk (I'm ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=204 Still unable to shake off the last 8 years, I occasionally feel as though I'm living in an alternate reality: [Sorry about the largeness of the photo. It's from Reuters and I couldn't figure out how to reduce it. Anyway.] From the Telegraph in the UK: Some of the food grown in ... http://www.wordydiva.com/?p=203