Paranormal Women’s Fiction is the best thing since sliced bread.

Paranormal Women’s Fiction is the best thing since sliced bread.

Also, it’s the bee’s knees! (I’ve never understood what is so great about the knees of bees, but apparently they’re really awesome, hence their immortality in a cute compliment.) (And since this silly blog is the home of the KORK-knees, well, I think I need to be using “bee’s knees” much more often. Or use,…

Happy Halloween 2022!

Happy Halloween 2022!

For this year’s spooky season, I’ve been happily immersed in a few fun things…another rewatch of Stranger Things, which led to an impromptu recreation of the infamous alphabet lights wall, a fun new book, and the new Disney Dreamlight Valley game! Disney Dreamlight Valley I’m really, really loving this game. As in, really loving it….

Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Review: A Court of Thorns and Roses

So…I finally finished A Court of Thorns and Roses! I’d started last year, put it aside & got absorbed into other things. Then about a week ago I decided to start from the beginning again (I’d forgotten some details)…and this time I got sucked right in & finished it in a week. Warning…spoilers ahead…warning…warning…spoilers… Wow…I…

Erma says, “Remember micromovements” – the December 2018 Elephant Coffee Klatch

Erma says, “Remember micromovements” – the December 2018 Elephant Coffee Klatch

It’s been awhile, hasn’t it? :) But Erma has not let me be. She’s been stomping around & making noise in the background, and she’s been whispering all kinds of ideas in my head. (Erma is the “elephant in the room” of my mind, a representation of my creative dreams that I’m ignoring as they hang…

The Neophyte Corseter: Part 1, in Which our Heroine dives into Corseting as Cheaply as Possible.

The Neophyte Corseter: Part 1, in Which our Heroine dives into Corseting as Cheaply as Possible.

I’ve wanted a corset for as long as I can remember – well ok, probably since I first saw A Room With A View in my early 20s and wanted to be either Maggie Smith’s character, Cousin Charlotte, or Helene Bonham Carter’s character, Lucy (still want to be both, to this day): Here I am,…