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Viva Cuba, where's my luggage?

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 11:01

Let's start this off by finding some good related images... it's too early for us to have pooled together our photos yet for this one but we did last November and they're all here. You can get the idea of the look of the place, not just the resort (Marea del Portillo) but Cuba itself. There's a few of a fatter me. Also, if you spot a Cuban gentleman in cowboy hat and blue t-shirt that has a Canadian flag and reads “I am Canadian”--that's Chichi.

April Fools Japery Retrospective

Submitted by Karen on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 08:55

It’s been four years since I started writing PA and ak online… four April Fools days come and gone. (Though, as I write, this one has not quite gone yet. Still, I will post no prank today for two reasons: 1) in a previous year I promised not to, and yet broke that promise, and would honour it this year; and 2) April Fools happens to combine with Easter Monday this year, I don’t work on statutory holidays and waggishness is hard work, you know.)

A look back at the foolery seems in order.

Those who have gone beyond

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 09:58

Kyril Oakwind 1951-2013
(Photo from Pagan Newswire Collective - Cara Schultz)

I first learned about the passing of Kyril, who read and occasionally commented both here and on EC, from a comment by SK on WarBird some days ago. I didn't post much about it as I didn't know any details at all.

Now I've learned that Kyril was fighting breast cancer for years before finally succumbing on March 9.

2011 April Fools Day Impostor Post

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 02/07/2013 - 13:43

[Posted April 1, 2011]

To: Vaimoy Sala aht Tennunga nar sept Yeola-e, Niku aht Tanra nar sept Taekun
From: Asinu aht Deyana nar sept Daeka
After-Flight Report Akim 22, 4975 / atakina 22, 1551

Whack-weed makes the National Post

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 01/29/2013 - 07:12

...in a circuitous way, anyway.

When I am not writing Chevenga, I am doing freelance journalism, and when I'm not doing either of those I am working as the executive director of the Canadian Consumers Centre for Homeopathy. (These are all part-time, else I'd have to have three brains and six hands. Not that I don't often wish I did anyway.)

The semanakraseye’s healer’s heart : all the Kaninjer posts in one place

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 14:50

Yes, I decided to put all of them here. Ones in bold are wholly or partly about his romances.

The Philosopher in Arms:

183 - The semanakraseye’s healer (Intro. Your narrator up to the scene break is Chevenga.)
190 - Self-induced alcohol poisoning (Past the scene break)
198 - Dealing with difficult patients

Strong female characters

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 01/10/2013 - 20:05

Doing a read-through involves wandering into the past, the context of your writing as it used to be… in my case not just three years ago when I started posting but 20 or 30 years ago when I wrote portions of what’s in my three-year-old posts. So an old irritation itched me again, and it has to do with strong female characters.

The Great Read-Through

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 16:11

Update 06, Feb. 7

In part due to the virtual company of my newly-formed writers' group (we have Gotomeeting & Skype sessions) I've managed to get a lot done... up to 487 now, which means it's going much faster as it's 1K-word posts from 463 on.

Writing asa kraiya : origin and process

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 12/27/2012 - 18:39

When you start a story young, you don’t analyze it much. You just do what feels right, having a youthfully-inordinate amount of faith that it will turn out well, and don’t worry too much about the psychological or philosophical mechanics of it. Or perhaps even if you do, you aren’t ready to really penetrate them yet, so it won’t happen. At least this is the case with me.

Former AN: Chevenga’s visit to Avritha

Submitted by Karen on Fri, 11/30/2012 - 07:21

As a result of GV flailing and crying "Foul! Too summary!" on Post 792, and another commenter saying they would want to read more detail—which can be interpreted to mean many more readers would like same but aren’t saying so—I did an IM planning session with Shirley. As well as some edits to correct a canon error in the post, the upshot is that we are indeed going to write it. In fact, as a result of some idea-bashing, we are going to add more characters and more... ehh, let’s just say, tension.