Above is my art. I'm not skilled at drawing realistic animals. I'd like to be, and maybe I can figure out how to work some classes into my life, or at least some YouTube videos. Then I could draw better foxes, rabbits, and dragons. Please accept my poor rendering of a fox. The sort of …
(So many content warnings, y'all. Don't click the links if you don't want to see the images. I linked them in order to cite some sources.) Many of us know what it is to lose someone. We may journey through the land of grief on different paths, facing different monsters, but everyone who lives long …
(Two posts in one week! It must be a semester break.) The first thing I'm going to do in the New Year is contradict myself. (Honestly, it's a lifelong habit. Why change now?) In my last post, I talked about organizing. And yes, I'm still going to experiment with ways to organize documents and photos, …
Continue reading It’s (Still) the Most Liminal Time of the Year
'Tis the season for clearing out and organizing, is it not? Sure, there's spring cleaning, but end-of-the-year clear-outs and New Year's Resolutions are everywhere. One sign, in case you needed one, was the wall display at the grocery store. Gone were the Christmas dooddads and baubles! Instead were the very tempting storage containers. I don't …
Continue reading Weeknotes–Organizing Stories Edition and Our Sweet Sadie
I've been getting back into zines. I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm going to talk about it again because now I have a zine shelf! So, I bought a few at conventions a few years before the pandemic, and then during the pandemic, I made a few as part of Story-a-Day May. Each …
I've been focused on the art these last few weeks. Above is a recent piece I finished. It took hours and hours to do. I started with the main circle, the sun perhaps or the center of a flower. The viewer can decide. I had the new idea of adding flowers going across. I used …
I love boxes. Why do people love boxes? Have you seen the Container Store? A temple to the box if there ever was one. When I was in elementary school, my grandmother lived near a strip mall. In the mall was a hardware store, but it wasn't like the hardware stores of today. It was …
I do my best to avoid the Could-Have-Been Monster. Who isn't familiar with it? Who sitting alone late a night staring at a screen of one kind or another hasn't felt it lurking in the shadows reaching for a hunched over shoulder? It is a patient monster, never really giving up, always there waiting for …
Many things inspire me. As you know, the Internet contains a vast amount of creativity. Every day I see beautiful things, lovely films, charming images, quirky poems, and on and on. Yes, I realize it harbors many horrors, but that's not where I wish to spend my time. Anyway, I see talented people everywhere. Not …
Marta Pelrine-Bacon 