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Ohio Scottish Arts School is next month?
I can’t believe it’s only a month until the Ohio Scottish Games, followed by Ohio Scottish Arts School.
When I first discovered OSAS, I sought something to keep my harpist engaged with her instrument of choice. She loves a challenge!
By chance, I found harpist Ashley Lake’s knowledgeable mother, Stephanie Taylor Lake, who let me in on Luneita Cotton’s tutelage. She’s just the right teacher for…
New stuff!
Yes, I started my Podcast back up a few weeks ago. It’s such great lovely wonderful nice mental health practice. Come listen if you wanna, or watch:The Leslea Show on YouTube:
If all of that is too much noise, you can read along (maybe, possibly), in a more intimate fashion than I have been sharing on PlanetTash.com. For right now, it’s got a personal blog post, but I’m also thinking about…
A Literary Game Night Proposal
Have you ever read a physical book with hand-written annotations? It’s a trend, and a great one, I think.
I am considering starting a game night/book club thing where we play some kind of mystery game or other RPG and pass around a book. Everyone would get a turn taking the book home and adding their own notes, and then when the book has been annotated by all, everyone would get a chance to read…
A cozy fantasy midlife mystery
Hey! Happy New Year! Have you heard of “cozy fantasy”? Oh, it’s divine. A lot of it is set in fantasy worlds, but some of it is more on the magical realism side, or low fantasy, where the magical world intrudes into our everyday life. Cue Miss Fitz! I’m now subtitling these as “Cozy Fantasy Midlife Mysteries.”
AND, obviously an entirely new aesthetic!
I really loved the original artwork I had…
Harping on the harp
My child is playing her fingers raw preparing for her first ever solo gig, and I am so proud, while also SO the bad guy, because I am not letting her slack.
She’s really GOING for it and her little fingers are growing callouses, but it feels like she’s conquering something within herself. It’s difficult to say, as a third party, but it’s beautiful to watch.
And, yeah, I am the bad guy, but I…
First trip out of the house this year!
Tomorrow is really the first “normal” Monday of 2025, and we just paid a ridiculous amount of money to have our driveway shoveled, so the obvious agenda for today was LEAVING the Treehouse!
We made two stops! One for food, and the other for…food. You can’t go to the grocery store hungry, after all, unless the grocery store has an appealing restaurant within. Ours does not, so we indulged in a…
Spirit Animals
Cozy Kittens & Animal Symbolism
This morning–just a moment ago–I was visited by another of my spirit animals. It was a cozy kitten. Not too surprising, considering the eight inches of snow that fell overnight. Nestle in, settle down, and rest. Keep warm. I know what she wants.
They’re never this detailed in real life, but it was something like this. ^
It isn’t the first and hopefully it won’t…
2025
It’s really here. We’re a quarter way through the century, and it’s disconcerting sometimes how very quickly it all happened.
I’m still a little kid–tall, lean, buck-toothed…my knees constantly skinned and my voice always too loud. I could fall down right now and rip a hole in my jeans on the basketball court. I could dive into a swimming pool and swim the length of it underwater, holding my…
Glow up time for ZuZu in her children’s chapter book
Chicken Impossible Cover makeover
ZuZu’s lazy freeloader chickens fail to hatch any chicks, so she sets out on an adventure with her family to add three tiny fluffballs of chickeny goodness to the family’s backyard flock. With the help of Mom, Dad, and three older brothers, ZuZu becomes a chicken agent, nonpareil. If you loved Junie B. Jones, give ZuZu and her family’s adventure a read.…
