School is winding down for us and the countdown is in the single digits. Some people send their kids to camp, others have their kids in spring and fall sports. I figure if I’m going to have them home all [...]
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Momming Monday: OCCUPY! The Children
Tagged with: Arts & Crafts, Athena Grayson, creativity, dreams, Geekdom, imagination, Making Things, making things, momming monday, Momming Mondays, moms made of WIN, occupy, tree houses, wellness, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Amazing Things
Today, I’m speaking to everyone in my life, as well as everyone who happens upon this blog, to tell you that writing can be a lonely business. You sit around all day with only the people in your head for [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, creating, Making Things, making things, reader appreciation, Scribbling, storytelling, Wellness, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Truth In Fiction
There are eight million stories in the Naked City…
Why do you write stories? Why not articles, or blog posts, or shopping lists with grand flourishes and curlicues? It’s because you have something to say.
Sure, we can say that we have [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, creativity, creativity with meaning, Making Things, making things, Scribbling, truth in fiction, well writer, why we write, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Momming Monday: Finding Your Feet
You can trot along feeling like you’ve settled into your pace, and you’ve got this “walking on two feet” thing down pat, and suddenly look down to find–or rather to NOT find–your feet. You don’t know where those suckers went, [...]
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Friday Free-For-All
I have this thing for alliteration, can you tell?
This Space Is Occupied
From the comfort of my rural exercise ball, I have been avidly watching livestream and youtube coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As a GenXer, I’m amazed that [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, Geekdom, History, making things, moms made of WIN, Science, science, values, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Being Mobile At Home: An Update On Working With A Treadmill Desk
This may become a weekly thing…
With my treadmill desk functioning adequately–meaning I’m still ironing out how I do things, versus how I think I might do things–I’ve discovered a few nuggets of info that will have some bearing on what [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, DIY, health, healthy writer, making things, treadmill desk, well writer, wellness, Wellness, writing
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I Type 800 Words A Mile
Well, I’ve done it. Version 0.1 of the Treadmill Desk is in Beta release. In software terms that means there’s still a lot of bugs and it’s probably not fit for casual public consumption, but it is usable and with [...]
Tagged with: Arts & Crafts, Athena Grayson, DIY, fitness, for writers, Geekdom, health, healthy writer, Making Things, making things, treadmill desk, well writer, wellness, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Airships Again
I have this thing for Airships. I know, it was a technological dead-end, and the feasibility of modern commercial air travel via airship is the equivalent of the slow boat to China, but I’ve never stopped thinking that something with [...]
Tagged with: airships, Athena Grayson, inventing, Making Things, making things, Retrotech, Science, science
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Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Or actually, it can be harder to write.
Little bit of an update here. Although it’s not apparent from my sidebar’s lack of links to Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, or wherever, I am actually a writer writing books. I’ve got no links [...]
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Upstanding Citizens At Work
If you sit down to do your job, whether it’s answering phones, figuring out the national debt, or writing stories about people who answer phones and figure out the national debt WHILE ZOMBIES ATTACK, chances are, the biggest cause of [...]
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