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An Interview and Other Such Things...
Apr. 30th, 2020 08:47 amThis continues to be a very weird time in which to have a small press book come out, but I was interviewed by Salon Futura about Unjust Cause the other day and it has been posted as an audio file: https://www.salonfutura.net/2020/04/interview-lyda-morehouse-tate-hallaway/
If you are interested in such things, please check it out. And, of course, if you are so moved (and haven't done so already) please buy my book: https://www.wizardstowerbooks.com/shop/unjust-cause/
Or buy one for a friend! Or several friends. Better yet, buy it and Precinct 13 as a set!
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In other news, the sun is shining today. I am hoping to go out for an early morning walk to enjoy all the bright light and bird sounds. Mason has a physics test that he has to get up for in about an hour or so. Shawn is dealing with continued bad news at work, so I'm just as happy to have an excuse to get out of the house. In fact, I may also brave some grocery shopping in a bit because we are running out of the basics: milk, eggs, and flour.
Yesterday, I took some extra yeast over to a friend (for a no-touch drop off) who has run out. I also hived off Vera, fed the new bit, and brought it over in disposable Tupperware in case my friend would like to try her hand at sourdough without the hassle of starting it. It occurs to me that if anyone else local to me would like a cup or two of sourdough starter, mine is very, very robust and healthy. I would happily make deliveries. The more I hive her off, the healthier she remains. Bonus: once you start feeding it, the starter is yours to name as you wish. My friend is going to be thinking up gender-neutral names and has informed me that the starter now uses they/them pronouns. Vera and I are very proud parents (Vera)/grandparents(me) of this To-Be-Named new starter and hope they have a long and productive life.
Another friend of mine, who I talked to on the ACTUAL PHONE the other day, told me that he didn't want to be part of this whole 'meme' of naming sourdough starters. I told him that was fine, but that he should not be mistaken in thinking that naming sourdough is in any way a NEW fad. Tons of my cookbooks from the 1960s suggest that naming sourdough is traditional--or at least was something people were already doing back then. It might be a fad? But it is an OLD fad, not a meme.
What seems to be new-ish is out-clevering one another with pun names. Though, somehow I doubt even that's really all that new.
I found myself a new pen pal on Facebook yesterday, and this is a continued reminder that if you would like mail I am happy to send you some of the really terribly cheesy greeting cards I have picked up over the years at estate sales. I am, what they call in the pen friends fandom, L/L: a "long letter writer." So, drop me a note in my PM or at lyda.morehouse@gmail.com. I am also what is known as: A/A, "answers all," because I have no requirements for pen friends, not even that you write back, necessarily.
At this point, consider it if only to help save the USPS.
Interestingly, my Canadian pen friend informs me that we have significantly slowed down in our correspondence. Only a day or so ago, did she receive a letter I sent in early April. We used to be about two weeks delayed (which is only funny because I could drive 8 hours and throw a letter over the Canadian border,) but now we seem closer to a month. She actually figures the delay is on Canada Post's side, because they did some kind of massive layoffs. But that may be happening here, too, if we can't figure out how to keep supporting our postal carriers.
Right.
I should gird my loins and head out to the grocery store. Wish me luck!
If you are interested in such things, please check it out. And, of course, if you are so moved (and haven't done so already) please buy my book: https://www.wizardstowerbooks.com/shop/unjust-cause/
Or buy one for a friend! Or several friends. Better yet, buy it and Precinct 13 as a set!
/advertisement.
In other news, the sun is shining today. I am hoping to go out for an early morning walk to enjoy all the bright light and bird sounds. Mason has a physics test that he has to get up for in about an hour or so. Shawn is dealing with continued bad news at work, so I'm just as happy to have an excuse to get out of the house. In fact, I may also brave some grocery shopping in a bit because we are running out of the basics: milk, eggs, and flour.
Yesterday, I took some extra yeast over to a friend (for a no-touch drop off) who has run out. I also hived off Vera, fed the new bit, and brought it over in disposable Tupperware in case my friend would like to try her hand at sourdough without the hassle of starting it. It occurs to me that if anyone else local to me would like a cup or two of sourdough starter, mine is very, very robust and healthy. I would happily make deliveries. The more I hive her off, the healthier she remains. Bonus: once you start feeding it, the starter is yours to name as you wish. My friend is going to be thinking up gender-neutral names and has informed me that the starter now uses they/them pronouns. Vera and I are very proud parents (Vera)/grandparents(me) of this To-Be-Named new starter and hope they have a long and productive life.
Another friend of mine, who I talked to on the ACTUAL PHONE the other day, told me that he didn't want to be part of this whole 'meme' of naming sourdough starters. I told him that was fine, but that he should not be mistaken in thinking that naming sourdough is in any way a NEW fad. Tons of my cookbooks from the 1960s suggest that naming sourdough is traditional--or at least was something people were already doing back then. It might be a fad? But it is an OLD fad, not a meme.
What seems to be new-ish is out-clevering one another with pun names. Though, somehow I doubt even that's really all that new.
I found myself a new pen pal on Facebook yesterday, and this is a continued reminder that if you would like mail I am happy to send you some of the really terribly cheesy greeting cards I have picked up over the years at estate sales. I am, what they call in the pen friends fandom, L/L: a "long letter writer." So, drop me a note in my PM or at lyda.morehouse@gmail.com. I am also what is known as: A/A, "answers all," because I have no requirements for pen friends, not even that you write back, necessarily.
At this point, consider it if only to help save the USPS.
Interestingly, my Canadian pen friend informs me that we have significantly slowed down in our correspondence. Only a day or so ago, did she receive a letter I sent in early April. We used to be about two weeks delayed (which is only funny because I could drive 8 hours and throw a letter over the Canadian border,) but now we seem closer to a month. She actually figures the delay is on Canada Post's side, because they did some kind of massive layoffs. But that may be happening here, too, if we can't figure out how to keep supporting our postal carriers.
Right.
I should gird my loins and head out to the grocery store. Wish me luck!