• Squirrel Wizard

    I have knitted a squirrel wizard! This adventerous little guy will be given to a randomly chosen newsletter subscriber Monday, August 30th. If you aren’t subscribed to my newsletter, you can do so here. If you are, well, fair warning, you’re in the drawing for…

  • The Company of Fluffs

    At current count, we have three cats more or less occupying our yard. (Do we have a dog? Yes. Does our dog chase cats, or follow cats, or pay any attention at all to cats? No, because our dog thinks she’s a cat, and therefore…

  • The Whims of Flowers

    Behold, the sunflowers I did not plant! Note they are accompanied by other wild flowers I also did not plant. See them all thriving alongside the onions I did plant. Our yard has gone through some big changes this year. We put in new garden…

  • Summering Along

    Summer came on hot–like 117° (47° C) here, which is staggeringly unheard of in my cloudy corner of Oregon. Of course as soon as it finally dropped into the high 90° I took a wonderful (but also hot: 111°) weekend camping trip to the desert.…

  • I Did a Crochet!

    I am a knitter. I love knitting toys and silly hats, and many, many other things. That said, I am not much of a crocheter. When I was younger I crocheted “elf” hats–the kind that maybe Santa’s elves would wear. At that time I was…

  • New Book and a Super Penguin

    Hurray! NOBODY’S GHOUL, book #8 of the Ordinary Magic series is out now! One of the fun things about writing a series with this many books is I get a chance to catch up loose threads from earlier volumes and weave them into the story.…

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