Figures of speech are ways of putting together words or phrases to tell a story more vibrantly and vividly, like painting a picture with words. If you wish your reader to taste, feel, smell, and hear the scenes you’re describing, figures of speech are indispensable, as otherwise the storytelling falls flat and feels lifeless. Breathe life …
Author: oKatniss
Tales from the Dork Side: Calamity Jane Pissed on Me
Calamity Jane is angry at me for some reason and, in turn, I’m angry at that dumb little cat. I woke up on the couch this morning, startled by both the morning noise in the kitchen and by Calamity Jane having a one-cat stampede around the living room. It’s the same stampede, I assume, continued …
A Fascination with Urban Foraging and Anti-Consumerism
Freeganism is the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded. Freegans and freeganism are often seen as part of a wider anti-consumerist ideology, and freegans often employ a range of alternative living strategies based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Note: Freeganism is also known as Urban Foraging and, in …
From Blog Fail To Blogging Tenacity
I had been wanting to start a blog for literally years. I had a liveJournal that I attended to regularly for about a decade before I discovered Facebook for my social needs and let LJ slide. I’m not sure LJ counts as a blog blog… or does it? It’s a blogging platform, but it doesn’t …
8 Things I’m Thankful for This Thanksgiving
I’m not going with “a roof over my head” this year, because I’m thinking that’s obvious and almost everyone’s favorite thing to say when awkwardly put on the spot at the Thanksgiving table. Especially since the person before you just said that. I also don’t think it’s fair to leave out other things that are also really important …
Tis Not Yet The Season?
It is Monday, November 16th, and our neighbors two doors down have decked the halls. Well, honestly I don’t know for sure if their halls have been decked, as I haven’t been inside, but the outside of their house indubitably has been. As of this afternoon, more than a week before Thanksgiving, their eaves and their …
Can Cartoon Foxes Teach Me To Be Smart?
Last night I dreamt in code. It was a “sick” dream. You know how when you’re sick you have the worst time falling asleep, and then when you finally do you have those kinds of dreams that repeat themselves all night? Especially if you’ve been concentrating on something in particular before you fall asleep? It …
Paleo Pad Thai
I’m sick today, down with my son’s cold that I thought was an allergy. My fault. I wasn’t careful. I ate off his plate. Blarrrrgh. Anyway… Once again, I’m stealing a post from my own Instructables (over there I’m Indeepknit, but may change my name if possible). This is another one I entered in the …
10 Tasks For My Imaginary Personal Assistants.
Tonight I was going to write a post about It’s a Small World being the most under appreciated and over-complained about attraction at Disneyland, and I was going to add plenty of photos. An hour later, I’m exasperated, as my photo albums are a frightful mess! I only found a few that I wanted to use, and …
How Disneyland Saved Me from Social Anxiety
As you now know, I’m mom to Aspies. And, if you happened to read my last post, you’ll know that this momming of Aspies can be socially isolating. Add that social isolation to an already-existing case of social anxiety, and life can be pretty damned miserable. At the time of this writing, my guys are …
