You know the networking groups are out of hand...

When you go to register for one, and you're already a member.

And you can't find anything with a password on it in your mail....

Poetry for the season --

I love this simple and not-so-simple poem by Jenna Felice. Jenna was a young editor at Tor Books when she died suddenly from, of all things, a severe asthma attack. Jenna'd had some very hard times growing up; her mother was an invalid fighting for her life. Jenna held the household together until her mother died, and then she raised her younger sister. I only met this funny, smart, talented woman in her last year, and of all the people I met in that daze of a convention, sitting on a bed at a party and talking with her remains bright and cheerful in my memory.

This site is a tribute to Jenna, but her name is not at the end of this poem. So if you share it, and the link, be sure to say Jenna Felice wrote this poem.

I read it several times, during winter.

http://www.jennafelice.org/yearsend.html

Book View Cafe Posts -- Part Three FotP and another Macrobiotic post

Part Three of "Feather of the Phoenix", my homage to the Arabian Nights stories, has gone up at Book View Cafe

Also new today is the second part of Pati Nagle's story "Glad Yule" and Chapter 1 of Anne Harris's novel ACCIDENTAL CREATURES. Check them out!

My BVC Blog post "Tea is the staff of life! (And, when prepared properly, so are grains – and I don’t mean beer.)" is up, as well as Jennifer Stevenson's "Exercise and soul retrieval". My post includes recipes for Kukicha tea and Roasted Barley Tea.

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