Laundry day! And since our washer is on the fritz again, I am off to a new-to-me local laundromat (the Elfhame Wash & Dash) to justify m...

I'm still exploring the edges of the new county in which we find ourselves, and several local folks have suggested I visit "the hob...

You know what happens when Sooz a) is kinda bored and b) has craft items in her possession? Yep. You get a random case of the googlies. Go...

was going to write an introductory statement here about why one would want to be a magical person, but you know what? That's nonsense. I...

[NOTE: I've been inundated with anonymous comment spam over the last few days -- not that it does the spammers any good, as I delete all...

In the interest of full disclosure (and shameless bragging rights), I have finished another scarf. And it is a non-Red-Scarf-Project scarf, ...

Greetings, pedants! About five years ago I posted a Grammar Pedant video on YouTube , and almost immediately regretted it -- mostly becaus...

When I was a child, I had a pet dragon. He was a gentle, sweet creature, more Puff than Smaug, with big sleepy eyes, silver-green scales and...

AVE you ever wondered how a writer's brain works? Probably not, but I'mma tell you anyway. So today I was on Twitter and I cam...

The day started out with rain, switched up to hail, at some point this evening began to sleet, and is now gamely snowing. We can hear people...

So, some of you may have noticed that you got a goofy grade-school valentine from me in the mail this year -- probably in a repurposed or ha...

It's that time of year again! So, did Sinterklaas bring you something? Captain Midnight must have been good, because Sinterklaas broug...

One of the things about being a Sooz cat is I have to get to have conversations like this: Roxy: Oh hey, are those nachos? Are they for ...

The long-neglected Wish I Were Here blog is about to be showered in a veritable cavalcade of postcards! No, really! A whole lot of colleg...

[NOTE: If you're part of Deaf culture, a lot of these ruminations are going to be of the "well, duh" variety. But since I don...

You know the multiverse theory , right? The idea that we live in just one of a cloud of potential alternate universes or dimensions, each op...

O, a slightly whimsical idea for you, inspired by a comment I heard at church today: If I were completely invisible, would you still be ...

So we're watching Back to the Future tonight (because OF COURSE we are!), and I had a rather crackpot "Great Scott" moment wh...

UST had a random funny thought. You know all those science fiction stories where a planet is beautiful, seemingly inhabitable by humans, b...

Shiver me timbers, mateys, it be Talk Like a Pirate Day! Oh, and it also be Deface Yer Avatarrr Day. Ha ha har! This day we be hoistin...