Month: October 2013

In case you aren’t familiar with it, Bones is a medical/crime show centered around the character of Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, who studies the bones of the dead to solve crime.  The show is inspired by Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan novels.  The show is quite different from the novels, but no less good.  I began watching it several years ago.  In fact, I didn’t even like the first episode I watched!  I’d read the books and was curious, but the episode did not move me.  Then, some time later, I was looking for things for my Christmas List and decided to give it another shot.  And I loved it.  I loved it so much that I bought and watched the subsequent seasons until I was caught up, then began watching it live. For any Bones fans – what I’m about to talk about contains MAJOR spoilers up till last week’s episode.  Read at your own risk.

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  I want a new house. Badly. It’s possible some of this urge is envy of Siri’s new home. It sounds like she has so much space, and I just love old houses, and I might even grow a few herbs if I had a back yard, or even just a little more space on my porch… A lot of it, though, is that my apartment is simply too small. I knew it was small when I moved in five years ago, but since then my kid has grown about a foot (I swear!) and grown more social. Also I’ve acquired a housemate. I thought it was just temporary, but she likes living here and I like having her here. Add to the fact that I am working on getting some balance in my life, which means walking away from my computer, but if I walk into the living room to read or watch TV or exercise, there’s the housemate, in the place she goes to get away from the kid who has no idea how to SHARE A ROOM…

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Oh, dear friends, I know Pinterest has been around forever in Internet terms, I just thought I didn’t have a use for it. For those of you who, like me, occasionally live under social media rocks, Pinterest is basically a social media site for pictures. You can upload your own pictures, re-pin other people’s, comment, and like various images. You can follow users or boards. So why have I finally decided to take the plunge?

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Two years ago in this space I wrote about attending Nuit Blanche, a one-night-only arts festival that runs from dusk until dawn. If you think this sounds magical, it is…or at least it was. Picture an urban downtown transformed, sculptures in alleys, multimedia installations projecting onto buildings, performance art on the street, location-specific works of art making the most of the spaces that, for one night only, they are allowed to take over. Wandering around with friends at night, finding art in the most unlikely places, I felt like I was getting away with something, like I was discovering a secret part of the city, like I was sharing a private experience with the other attendees.

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Just a quick post today to tell you that we have a new story up. Still Waters Run Deep: Part 3 is the latest installment of a fantasy serial by Siri Paulson (me!). It’s set in a quasi-Thailand and follows a pedlar who’s been wandering the jungle waterways for many years, selling charms from village to village…but something magical has gone very wrong in the city, and he can’t hide from his past any longer. If you missed the beginning of the story, start here. Part 2 is here. We’ll be back with a proper blog post next week. Stay tuned!  

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