tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41164792012-01-18T22:55:27.410-05:00<b>I am the Pirate Queen</b><br><br>Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.comBlogger2351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-35424735405803811752011-09-29T22:08:00.005-04:002011-09-29T23:24:45.596-04:00

My friend Meg posted this interesting meme. Someone gives you five words she thinks of when she thinks of you. You write about them. Here are the five words Meg came up with about me:Pirates, kombucha, tattoos, freckles, boots.1. I like pirates. What more can I say? Well, I don't really like them at all. I think piracy is terrible. People get killed by pirates, and other people kill pirates. But

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A repeat post from my Stone Baby Games website.This past year I've watched my daughter Bea take to creative writing for pleasure. I had the joy of reading and editing an amazing piece of horror that she wrote for class a few months ago. She likes her darkness, I tell you, (although she finds vampires overdone and boring). She has since written more in the setting and characters. I see myself in

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1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?Lots of things! I went to Denmark, did new and raw forms of self-care, to name a couple.2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I don't make resolutions once yearly. I do them on a short term as-needed basis, and continue to re-evaluate them for relevance, so not really, but I stuck to most of the

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I'm astounded by the explosion of Islamophobia. I'm not so surprised by it. I'm just surprised at how many seemingly reasonable and kind people are letting their nasty, hateful side shine out there in public. It's perfectly okay these days to hate Muslims.I don't even have to go within a two block radius of Ground Zero to see it. Check out the brain trust just down the highway from me: This is

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I rarely blog these things, but I am today....Who’s the last person you laid next to? Mr. Ellingboe.Last person you had a phone conversation with? My mom.Someone tells you that your beautiful, you say...? "Thanks" and then get all awkward.Who was the last person you added to your contacts? A friend from high school.Is it possible to be JUST friends with someone you want to be with? Oh heck yes,

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Yesterday I went to my friends Christine and Hannah's wedding out in Kingston. It was a beautiful occasion. Lovely weather, fantastic food, the ceremony was touching, personal moving. I first met Christine in college. We lived in the same house. I had just returned from a three year hiatus to finish my last two years, Christine (Christie, as I've always known her) was a senior. We hit it off

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Hi there! Long time no blog. I have much to catch up on, so here are some things you may read about in the weeks to come.Mr. E and I went to Denmark. I was the guest of honor at Fastaval. I ran a larp that Emily Boss and I have been working on called What to Do About Tam Lin. We ran it on two previous occasions at Dreamation in February and Intercon in March. Fastaval was an amazing convention. I

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Wow! Summer came and went without a single blog post. Actually, I spent very little time on the computer this summer (my new unlocked and jailbroken iPhone, well, that's a different story.) I'm back now, though. I think, for now.I like my job much better than my old job. The work is difficult and stressful, but it's rewarding and interesting. I adore the kids I work with. They amaze and frustrate

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I have a new job. I start Monday. It's a nice change of pace, a step in a new direction, and I am really looking forward to where I will go. I'll be working within walking distance from home, during the day, and most day's I'll be off at 3:15.I'm going to be working as an instructor in a local public school (Bea's old school actually, and what will be Ingrid's new school when she starts

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I've had a post/essay brewing for months, and I may never actually get it finished, but I'll let you in on a little secret: I have a collection of face veils that I've worn only in the house and while LARPing. I'm all for covering my hair, but I'm not really moved to cover my face for modesty's sake, or for religious purposes. Ironically, in the essay that I can't seem to write, I wanted to talk

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I was between 8 and 11 years old. My dance teacher Cindy lent me an album so I could choreograph a dance. I don't remember a single song on that album, save one. It was a group children's choir singing a haunting but joyful melody, and the children's voices sounded like little haunted but joyful mice. I didn't understand the lyrics (because come to find out today, they were in Greek). I was

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I'm one of the glorious casualties of the "downturn of the economy". Apparently people are not having elective medical tests done, and are just sucking up their sleep disorders and not getting sleep studies. So I've been laid off.There's more to the story, because people love to tell their "How I got laid off" stories, and few companies do it "right" or "well", but right now, since I'm on a job

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I love and hate when this happens. I had a really disturbing dream the other night. In short, I dreamed that a bunch of people seemingly forced their way into my house, although my door was always unlocked. A couple time I tried to lock the door, but people kept coming in. The weren't really doing anything other than walking around the living room. They weren't terribly friendly. I was frightened

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I have been working on Malice, the game formerly about scary dolls. Now it's a game that celebrates the low special effects and high character development horrow movies from the late 60's to the early 80's. Before the obvious thing to be feared could be seamlessly and realistically featured onscreen. I'm thinking of movies like The Omen, The Brood, and The Shining.I just happened to misplace my

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Almost two years ago, I wrote here about an experience I had at the Y. I mentioned being an unclothed woman sitting amongst other women in a room where such activities are appropriate (at the Y, in the women's locker room). It was one of those typical day-in-the-life observations. According to Sitemeter, I get more hits to that post than any other, and given the keywords that send people to the

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And I'm okay with that! I've been nursing an infant, toddler, or preschooler since May 29, 1999, with a 1 year hiatus during pregnancy. Ingrid is my last child and my last nursling. Now we are on to another era. My body is once again my own.So there's some bittersweetness here. A few months ago we came to the conclusion that our family was complete with two kids. No third or fourth baby. I'm a

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This is a tangent from a conversation happening elsewhere online.The African American Woman's Headwrap: Unwinding the SymbolsTerry Howcott: Ravaged Cultures Spark a Cultural Revival.

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See this from Stone Baby Games (which is me, in case you didn't know). I mean drama in a good way!I'm really looking forward to Dreamation this year! I'm also going to bring Werewolves of Miller's Hollow to play, inspired by the awesome story that was created in the Knife Fight Werewolf forum game. I'd like to play this bluffing and strategy game with lots of character development and story.The

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My parents visited us from December 18 to the 28th. It was a fun visit, except I spent the better part of their stay concerned about my dad's health. The last time I saw him was in March in Atlanta (see above) and he was almost 6 months post recovery from congestive heart failure. This time he did not look well. Apparently he wasn't feeling well.Without getting into the particulars, he was

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If God Invited you to a partyAnd said, "Everyone In the ballroom tonightWill be my special Guest," How would you treat themWhen you Arrived?Indeed, indeed!And Hafiz knows There is no one in this world Who Is not upon His Jeweled Dance Floor.-HafizWe started zikr with this poem last night. This past year has been the year of suck for in the realm of social circles, and I'm trying hard to see

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I think my crazy Target heels that I bought this summer (and wore once--I don't do heels as much as I'd love to, I'm tall enough!) We should all be so lucky as to have the chance to throw shoes at soon-to-be-former-president-but-obviously-not-soon-enough-for-most-of-the-world Bush.Hey look! Now you can throw a loafer at STBFPBONSEFMOTW Bush.Yes he was a fast dodger, yes no one near the stage made

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I picked up the official 2008 Christmas Goose today. It's a fine lean and meaty bird, weighing in at a bit over 8 pounds. When I tried to pay for it, the farmer didn't have enough change to give me. "I'll buy something else." I said, and started looking around the very empty and unheated storefront/office. They used to sell all kinds of stuff like locally made sauces, spices, and game meat. The

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I get a guilty pleasure out of thinking up outlandish scenarios for Steal Away Jordan. It's a guilty pleasure because my mom, the History Professor, and head of the African American Studies Department at University of Memphis, would probably think they're not very tasteful. But Steal Away Jordan is not an educational game, it's a role playing game, and if you learn something, it's not likely to

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Two years ago, round this time, I really hated my job (see Sing it, Johnny, The Camel's back..., and ...you utterly suck). What a difference two years makes. I love my job (see many more recent posts). I really love my job even when I really don't want to like my job.I have a really awful work schedule this month, and it makes me a rather crabby. I'm working every weekend, I have two stretches of

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I live in a fairly small town in a smallish rural area of a small state on the East Coast. I work in health care, directly with patients, on an intimate level. I watch people sleep. But before I do that, I connect them head to toe with EEG's, EKG's, EMG's, respiratory belts, pulse oximeters, and nasal canulas. I touch people heads, I scrubs spots on their scalps. The whole set up of a sleep study

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Yes we are!

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I'm watching MSNBC at work as I type this. Election news and political commentary have become my heroin. I need to kick it now. So Tuesday morning, when I get home from work, before I go to bed, I'm going to vote and then sleep. No news, no computer, no tv until 8 pm. That's the plan anyway. Wish me luck.I'm really looking forward to playing Apocalypse World on Wednesday knowing that Barack Obama

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I've been spending too much time reading about the election. It's horribly distracting, and I'm really fed up with the micro-reporting of unimportant bytes. I'm considering not watching the debates tonight, just so I can get my life back. I know whom I'm gonna vote for, I'm even a little confident that my guy will win. Perhaps I need to jump off the political train wreck.Steve sent me a link to a

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There's a thread at Mothering.com about coffee. You wouldn't know it now, but I used to love coffee. Then something happened.I started drinking coffee in one form or another when I was 6 years old (and at 5' 10", it didn't stunt my growth, which is one the things it allegedly does). At various times in my life I've enjoyed up to 6 cups a day. Towards the end of the day I'd switch to decaf. I'm

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Pharoah and Pontius Pilate:Executive Experience.Just sayin'.This is your nation on white privilege.

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Anyone wonder where his or her pretty Fisherman's Wife book is? I have them. I'm working on them. After GenCon, mundane life jumped on me, school started, I went back to work, had a birthday (I'm 38!), went back to being a Wife myself, and those fleeting hours devoted to bookbinding fled. Next week looks calmer. My work schedule is much kinder, Bea's settled in school, so I'll finish them up and

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From Very Good TasteHere are the directions1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.1. Venison2. Nettle tea3. Huevos rancheros4. Steak tartare5. Crocodile (but I've had alligator)6.

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Okay, let's pretend for just a moment that GenCon never happened. That would be a terrible thing, because GenCon was actually quite fantastic for the most part. Fisherman's Wife did well, even though I am still binding and sending out the fancy versions. And it was such a pleasure to meet new people and see old friends.The drive to and fro was loads of fun. Couldn't ask for better travelling

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Cross posted at Stone Baby Games:I'll be at GenCon this year dividing my time between The Forge/IPR and the Ashcan Front booths, and will have games available at each: Steal Away Jordan at The Forge/IPR and Tales of the Fisherman's Wife at the Ashcan Front.I've been hard at work on the latter. All the books will be hand-bound and full color. I'll have about 12-15 extra special editions. No two

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We just came back from vacation in New Harbor, Maine, where we go every year. We have a family cottage on the ocean. We spent a week walking around Damariscotta and Wiscassett, checking out Fort William Henry, Fort Edgecomb, and Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. Quick! Go find a US quarter--the Maine one. Look on the tail side. That's Pemaquid Lighthouse. They also have a fisherman's museum, which was

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JiffyCon, yay! I did two games of Tales of the Fisherman's Wife, which went amazingly well. I got some excellent feedback, and when we go to Maine next week, I hope to spend a nice chunk of time working on the TOFW text. I'm going to take it to GenCon as an ashcan and be part of the Ashcan Front booth.I also got to play Steal Away Jordan as a player and not GM for the first time. My character was

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So I wear lots of patchwork-hippie, simple shirt and skirt combos. I sort of have a uniform. It's a style that works for me. My clothes are practical for a mom with two kids. I've been wanting to get one of those cute handmade patchwork hippie dresses with the ties in the back, but I can't ever find them in my size. One that would have been a perfect fit came up on eBay recently, and I almost bid

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Come one, come all to JiffyCon this Saturday. More details at the official JiffyCon website. I’m running Tales of the Fisherman’s Wife, and Evan Torner is running Steal Away Jordan. I’m thinking about playstorming Murder Ballad Blackjack to put it back on track, but we’ll see. See ya’ll there! I make no guarantees, but I have no plans to get sick this time.

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Nine years ago today I became a mother for the first time. We named our daughter Amelia Beatrice. I liked the name Amelia, Chris liked Beatrice. When the midwife asked what we wanted to name our baby, Chris chimed in first. He said later that he used my choice because, as he put it, I had worked so hard to birth her. Still, Amelia is very much a "Bea". It's rare that we actually call her by her

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I'm organizing our stuff in the attic for a tag sale. I've been going through boxes and boxes of photos, children's clothes, baby stuff, books, toys, files, journals. My head is swimming in memories (and dust).Today I am sorting things we no longer want or need, setting boxes aside that we still want or need, throwing away things no one would probably want or need. Making way for more stuff. It

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When Ingrid was an infant she was allergic to dairy products. They gave her weepy, oozy, itchy, eczema patches all over her face, the back of her legs and her elbows. The best way to prevent them was to avoid all dairy. That meant I had to avoid all dairy. Goat, cow, sheep, water buffalo. No dairy. No cheese, yogurt, no fun for me, pirate dairy queen that I am.She grew out of it, and now dairy

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I picked up my bike on Wednesday. It's big and green. You know how some bikes are sleek and sexy? If they were human they'd be tall and svelte, they'd have deep voices and wear slinky clothes. Even my Giant hybrid has some sex appeal in this way, but she's more like Greta Garbo.Not my new bike. Vertamae, as I've named her, is the kind of sexy where if she were human she'd look like Lena Horne

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I entered a raffle contest from my favorite local radio station last week. From the title of this post you can guess what happened. I won something! Something kinda big and wicked cool. Actually I won a couple of things: organic cotton bedding, a wool comforter, and best of all, a Raleigh hybrid comfort bike.Two years ago I won 4 tickets to the Vermont Renaissance Festival from the same radio

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Another playtest of Tales of the Fisherman's Wife. This time we had 4 players, and it rocked. I'd eventually like to try it with 3 players, and I'm pretty confident that it would work. I tested new card mechanics and they worked much better. I'm still not confident about the final scene play, but it could be just insecurity. We created a great story and had fun, and that's most important to me

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Last night Meg and I played Tales of the Fisherman's Wife. I have a few mechanical kinks to work out, and as I mentioned before the end is really clunky, but we had fun, and told a hilarious story complete with sex with giant fish and kelp men.Act 1The story begins with the Fisherman preparing for his journey. I was the Fisherman, Meg was the Wife. The Fisherman asks "How many nets have you

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Wow! That was fast. I love it when I have an idea and it just flows to completion. I wrote the rules for Tales of the Fisherman's Wife last night, and even got it from notebook to computer. Print and play it and tell me what you think. The final act is a little loose and needs work, and there are parts where play might be a little clunky, so please give me some feedback. I got rid of the d4's and

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Two posts in one day may seem a little excessive, but since I have formally adopted "Pirate Queen" as my self-referential title, I couldn't help but share. Besides, I thought this would be interesting to those who know why someone once called me the Pirate Queen. Some of these folks probably know that I think highwaymen are "cooler", but that's irrelevant. I'm the Pirate Queen. (In rpg's) I

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In the past couple of years, I have committed a great deal of time and money to playing and designing role playing games. I'm getting to the point where the hobby pays for itself financially and I've received significant personal, social, and creative returns. So for now I'm getting what I put in. It can't hurt to ask occasionally, why make the investment, and to ask when the investment makes a

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-49806450167683757482008-04-02T20:42:00.006-04:002008-12-13T04:45:01.217-05:00

He who won't speak to me, but spends an astounding amount of time reading my blog? It's a little stalkish. I feel hainted.Yeah, I've been looking at my visitor stats lately. I still don't get all the people who come here looking for "naked sauna" entries.At this blog, I mostly talk about my kids, my hair, role playing games, both playing and designing (Steal Away Jordan, Murder Ballad Blackjack,

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Utagawa Kunisada. Floating Bridge of Dreams (Yume no ukihashi), 1854.I'm making a game for Chris for two people, inspired by my freaky tattoo thing (so you know what kind of game it will be), called Tales of the Fisherman's Wife: Roleplaying the Floating World.Set sometime in a fantasy Japan. When the Fisherman leaves for sea, he gives his wife 6 words to weave a story

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I love Atlanta!In the airport, on my way back home, I bumped into my cousins Chi Chi and Antonio. They were flying back from Argentina, where they were visiting their son, who works there. A luggage mishap kept them from leaving the airport and going home to Auburn, AL. It also made it possible for us to cross paths in a city neither of us lives in, going in opposite directions, but both going

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This is short notice, but if you’re in the Atlanta area, I’m giving a presentation on Steal Away Jordan and game design at Spelman College Monday, March 24 at 6 pm in the Ennis Cosby Reading Room.I’m going to talk about how I came to design a role playing game about slavery, about story games, the community, being an “only” in the community, and anything else that’s relevent. I’m also going to do

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[From Stone Baby Games] I have a new category: Slave Narratives. I'm on a search for all kinds of slave narratives in all kinds of media. Fictional, autobiographical, mythical, books, film, spoken word, still life. I am particularly looking for slave narratives that break with convention.Last month, as I watched Prince Among Slaves (the book on which it is based) on PBS, I realized that Steal

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I was at Trans World Market, cruising the aisles, trying not to spend more than I could afford (and failed). And there it was: Friday night's dinner (see above).How could I not spend $1.19 for Cock Flavored Soup?

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I had a hard time sleeping after last night's shift, and found myself still awake at 10 am. This will not bode well for tonight. I hope my patients need lots of bathroom breaks so I don't zone out or worse, fall asleep.Rachel Ray had a cool segment on sleep studies. I'm seeing more and more mainstream media on sleep disorders. 70% of Americans report being tired all the time, or something like

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Someone asked me about Murder Ballad Blackjack recently. I haven't been doing too much with it lately, I've been focusing more attention on M'Alice. But I think I'll work on it some more in April. I'm re-energized after watching the PBS Pete Seeger documentary 4 times (see below). Without Pete Seeger, I probably wouldn't be paying homage to folk music with a role playing game.Pete Seeger has

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He doesn't look like this anymore, what with all the rain and snow and 50 degree days, but Elvis lived in our backyard for a week.It's an early Elvis head on a later Elvis body.The co-creator and her work.A closeup on the face.

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Tonight we playtested M'Alice, and what I have so far works! The mechanics do what I want them to do, character creation works, the story telling was fun. I'm all abuzz with joy! We just did a few scenes to test out the mechanics and character creation, but I got to see how the dynamics between the PC's could change. The game is fun, too!Anyway, here's quick description the characters and how

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In the spirit of the olive branch I describe, please remember that I can only speak to my side of the conflict. I asked the person in question to self reflect on some issues about friendship, and so here I do the same. I asked someone who used to be a friend if we could sit and talk things out. It didn't go over well, and he refused my request. He has his reasons, and because we've not had a

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We're on a decluttering campaign. In a box of knick knacks I found a jar labeled "Magic". Inside, here is what I found.My long ponytail from the last time I cut my hair, pre-dreadlocks.A lock of Chris' hair.A lock of my hair, pre-dreadlocks.A vial of my blood (dried).The blood soaked (dried) bandage that covered the most painful tattoo I ever got.A ring from an ex-boyfriend, silver and shaped

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or, blah blah Black History Month.Dude, every month is Black History Month for some of us. I was going to run a special at Stone Baby Games to celebrate the shortest month of the year, but I changed my mind. That said, you can purchase and download a pdf of the snazzy new revised Steal Away Jordan at IPR.Instead, in celebration of the time when Black History gets a fighting chance to be

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The revised edition of Steal Away Jordan is available to pre-order until Wednesday, January 23. I will have a limited number of copies at Dreamation. Visit Stone Baby Games for more information.So what's that have to do The Primitive Orgy Oracle? Nothing. I'm just combining 2 posts, and "The Primitive Orgy Oracle" has a nice ring to it. Tonight I started working on the Primitive Orgy Oracle for

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I've never been a fan of cheesecake. I have a wicked sweet tooth, but cheesecake love has always alluded me. At Christmas, my parents sent my in-laws a cheesecake from Juniors in New York. Apparently, my parents have fond memories of going to Juniors with my aunt who lived in Brooklyn, and feasting on cheesecake. I remember things a little differently. I remember someone in the group saying "

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I apologize in advance for the inside joke-ness of this post. It might not make that much sense if you weren't privy to the characters in question's games. Then again, it really doesn't make much sense in the wider scheme of things.At the llewellyn website, there's a romantic compatibility test. All you do is enter your name and your lover's name, and you get an insightful and in depth randomly

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I've been in a funk for the past couple of weeks, and then I came across this. This is why I love You Tube.Also there's a huge photo of me in the local paper today, along with Meg, Emily, and Vincent. They did a whole article about the local role playing game designing and playing scene. I bought six papers!

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I have all these things I could write about, such as JiffyCon, my new autoharp, my wedding anniversary (#9 today), my present rpg character and the awesome game we're currently playing, Christmas dinner planning. I can't decide which one should have a full post. So here's what I'll do: Here's a quick summary of each of the things mentioned. If anyone wants to know more, let me know, and I'll make

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Crossposted at Stone Baby Games...I’m running a session of Steal Away Jordan at JiffyCon this Saturday. I’m trying to decide what the setting will be, and here are some that settings I’m toying with: An Amistad-esque journey. Not quite sure where it would begin. I’m thinking I could encourage the players to stage a mutiny and go from there. It could be interesting if through most of the game, the

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It's on it's way. My custom built 21 chord chromatic B model zebra wood autoharp by Timbreline Music. I have the UPS tracking code. As I type this, it's still in Colorado. Estimated delivery date is this Thursday. I have a good feeling it will be worth the wait.The arrival of a new autoharp makes me want to finish putting the Lumbert Mountain Music diatonic chord bars on my OS EBH/R. (That's an

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-21203471078039120462007-10-22T21:29:00.000-04:002008-12-13T04:45:05.629-05:00

I've been doing this off and on for years. Sometime between October and January, I color my hair black. My hair is naturally black, but the sun turns it reddish, and then I henna it mahogany in the summer, so it doesn't stay black for long. In the past I've used Miss Clairol blue black, and other "safer" herbal coloring kits from the health food store, but since I henna my hair, traditional

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-2903727581465396082007-10-20T20:25:00.000-04:002008-12-13T04:45:06.701-05:00

This afternoon, as I returned from the Y,I went to the co-op, some dinner for to buyI espied Farmer Tom, in the Co-op parking lotAnd I chanced upon his truck, and we talked for a spot.He told me about his crop this year at Three Sisters FarmWe talked at length of murder ballads amidst the park'ed carsHe gave me a snippet of a song, and I pass on to readers fairNow I would like to hear it, but the

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Is going to drive me nuts until all is confirmed. Once confirmed, I'll announce it in full at Stone Baby Games, because it has something to do with Steal Away Jordan. So without spilling the beans prematurely, I'm going to talk around the issue:Back when I was looking at colleges, my grandmother really pushed for me to go to an historically Black women's college in Atlanta. But I didn't want to.

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-87047333153565345032007-10-08T02:52:00.001-04:002008-12-13T04:45:06.949-05:00

I've been thinking about this game for months. It finally came to me last night.It's a short game, the GM is the "Bard". Here's the link to the wiki. Bear with me as I figure out the technology. Technically you can use any kind of ballad, and long as there are plenty of unanswered questions, contradictions, and conflict. I wouldn't call "Barbara Allen" a murder ballad, but it would work for this

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-78321717824227239872007-10-07T21:47:00.000-04:002008-12-13T04:45:07.186-05:00

Ingrid and I took a little trip to the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. This was one of my favorite museums when I lived in Memphis, and it's still a small yet wonderful place to spend a couple of hours, even with a two year old. We made it just in time to hear the last few minutes of Mary LeCompte from Lake Charles, Louisiana tell stories about growing up in Cajun country. Then we walked through the

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I'm in Memphis visiting my parents, helping to take care my of dad who just returned home from a two week hospital stay following a diagnosis of congestive heart failure following a heart attack. Physically he is very weak, and it hasn't quite set in (to him) just how seriously he is. It is difficult to see him in this state. He has a three page list of meds to take, he must follow a strict low

Partheniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17949537823234193305noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4116479.post-85184071797725516952007-09-29T23:53:00.000-04:002008-12-13T04:45:07.668-05:00

Chris brought Ingrid up to the farmer's market. My boothmate Crystal had her 3 year old daughter there, too. Fun was had by all. Asha and Ingrid are both cherubic blond little imps, and they get along very well. Crystal and I watched Asha and Ingrid do cute things, ate free food, and didn't sell much of anything. I sold one bottle of edible massage oil. Slow day, end of season. Anyway, so this

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Well, of course things got better. I stand on the sun sunny side of the street, and once again everything is right with the world, and what's not right will be so eventually, with a little work and love. My dad is still in intensive care. I'm going to visit him next week. Let's talk about something else.This afternoon I walked to town with Meg. It is a gorgeous day and I had to ask myself what in

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It comes shortly after Talk Like a Pirate Day. Without going into too many details, I was the Optimist in question, and the smacking was severe, continuous, and came out of nowhere. Much of the morning (and the night before) I spent reeling from the smack down, listening to Alice in Chains and exclaiming "I don't understand!", and exhibiting other physical manifestations of acute trauma and

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We had a mini playtest of Malice the other day, and the mechanics that I tested did what I wanted them to do. This game will be GM-less. Players take turns telling the story from their character's point of view. You will always have a doll, a child who has a relationship with the doll, and the family, friends, and maybe the pets of the child. The first scene sets up a conflict between the child (

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Based on a true story, and only slightly embellished. The names have not been changed. The moment she saw the baby doll, Ingrid fell in love with her. She loved her musty old house smell, the crazing and cracking on her composition finish, her frayed red cotton dress, and even the voice box that sounded more like a death rattle. The doll was older than her grandmother. Mama wouldn't tell her

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This is a picture of one of my scary doll project dolls. I got another one today, and four more are on their way. That will be all for now. I asked my mom to send me the doll I was originally afraid of, but she couldn't find it. It wasn't where I last left it when I visited them!So when Bea came home today from school--Proud mama moment: Bea rode her bike to and from school. I just happened to be

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That there is a picture of yours truly, because today is my birthday. I love birthdays, especially my kids' birthdays, but mine's been pretty fun so far.And here's a quick run down of what I did:Bea and Chris woke me up singing "Happy Birthday" and bear carrot cake and gifts. The gift was a game called Dread Pirate: Buccaneer's Revenge. He said given my interest in pirates lately (even though

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Dear Friends, Please update your blogs, help me stay awake, and save me from bad television.I have one more night before my 10 work day marathon ends, and I'm off until Sunday. In other words I will have worked 7 out of 10 days, 7 pm to 7 am. That's lots of overtime, lots of late nights, and occasional periods of sleep deprivation. I really love my job, and I'm clocking in 20 hours overtime, plus

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I'm working on a supplement to Steal Away Jordan which will be set in Brazil, where the PC's will attempt to escape to Quilombo de Palmares. It will be the uplifting sequel. But I'm brainstorming another game. This one's a little more fun, horrific, and unnerving, but in the fictional could-never-happen-or-could-it way. Today I started jotting down ideas for Doll: Tales of Love and Horror. I've

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I'm going to be 37 in a little over a week. Ten years ago, on my birthday, Chris asked me to marry him. We had a little picnic and hike at Crag Mountain in Northfield with our late dog Kaya (she was three at the time). He put an engagement ring in my apple pie. I saw the box in his shorts pocket, but I wanted to be surprised. My hair was really short back then, no more than 3 inches all around.

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So here are the top 25 keywords that bring people to Parthenia's Blog, according to Google Analytics. I've bolded my favorites, the ones I find more flattering or amusing.1 and 2. steal away jordan and "steal away jordan"3. naked sauna4. tatooed women5. blodpudding6. japanese octopus tattoo7. kombucha troubleshooting8. people find it difficult to resist your persuasive manner [My favorite. It was

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So I had a mostly adequate time at GenCon. That's an understatement. I don't even know where to begin. As I type this, I'm watching Blood Diamond, which is one of the most upbeat and happy movies I've ever seen. That's a just a lie. But Blood Diamond is a fitting place to begin the tale of how I went to GenCon 2007 and had an indescribable time, and sold a bunch of copies of a game about slavery.

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I'm taking the playtesting version down for Steal Away Jordan. You'll just have to buy a copy at GenCon. When I come back I'll set up a purchasey thing at the Stone Baby Games website (which will be www.stone-baby.com, and you can see the embryonic stages of that website here), and then points beyond. I went to Nashville last week, and my mom read the proof. She thought it rocked.See you in

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Above is the cover of Steal Away Jordan. I finished it yesterday, for the most part. I'm sure that after GenCon I'll get to work on the revisions and clarifications and the putting stuff in that I forgot. But for now, I have a very good looking GenCon edition. So now, in the next few weeks I'll finish up the Stone Baby Gameswebsite. Yay! The sense of accomplishment I'm feeling right now is

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I have this book on Nine Star Ki called The Ki: An Ancient Oracle for Modern Times. There are all these diagrams and worksheets to help you figure your Basic (aka Personal), Control (aka Character), and Tendency (aka Energetic) Numbers. Said worksheets remind me of character sheets! And the wheels start churning. Nine numbers, ten-sided dice (roll a 10, roll again). Flipping through the book, I

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Salvador (aka "Sal) ca. 2004-July 19, 2007Not even two weeks ago, James was hit by a car. Yesterday Sal cashed in his ninth life. I had a really creepy dream last night where our late dog Kaya came into our bedroom and started licking Chris' and my faces. At first I was happy to see her and then I realized that she was there to take Sal. The details are sketchy now, but for some reason I cupped

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This is my draft cover for Steal Away Jordan. If Jupiter aligns with Mars then I should be totally done typing it all up by the end of next week and will commence with layout design. Jupiter probably won't align with Mars, and I'll be typing and doing layout design at the same time. At some point there will also be a website, so bookmark Stone Baby Games now. Well, not now now, but soon now.

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Last week I saw a bear. That story will have to wait. I'm going to vent about the assholes who drive like maniacs on my street. In the three years that we've lived here, Chris has seen two dead cats, I've seen countless dead squirrels, we've both seen dead whistle pigs, Bea was hit by a car (she walked away with a few bumps and bruises), another child was hit by a car, Meg saw a car kill a

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Generally, when we do "sacred" or solemn acts, they come out awkwardly funny. For us, "sacred" means embracing the absurdity in what should be a solemn moment. Sacred generally involves dancing. Sacred means we call upon the Creator to come laugh with us. Laughter is holy. Silly or interpretive dance brings us close to the divine. Take, for example, how we say grace. Don't laugh. This is an

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This bed, by Shawn Lovell Metalworks, is easily the coolest bed I've ever seen.Anyway, so Ingrid now has a toddler bed in her own room (which doubles as the computer room for now), and last night she slept in it most of the night. Until last night she slept half the night in a crib in our room, and the other half in our bed. So this bed is her first nudge out of the nest. She was so proud and

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This is a really an update of my previous post. I'm still sick. Tomorrow is my last day at my hell job and I got so sick I had to leave at 11:15. I went home, managed to get some food in me, which hasn't come up the same way or exploded out the other end, and my stomach feels somewhat settled. I feel lucky. I fear my luck could run out of my ass at any moment though.I have a sensitive stomach on

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How quickly can a stomach virus run across a street and back again? Apparently, pretty damn quick. Ingrid puked on Thursday, Meg was sick on Thursday (but didn't puke). Vincent puked on Friday. It was my turn on Saturday.Friday night, I stayed up till the sun rose making product and labels. I got two hours sleep. I made decent money, sold a fair amount of things. But around 11 am, something felt

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is one step closer to doing what I love.I gave two weeks notice at my job from hell, and have been training at my new job. I love this job already. I could see making a career out of being a Sleep Tech. And given the hours, I would be able to pursue my vocation much easier than if I continued to work as an office whore.So why am I making the distinction between my career and my vocation? Well, as

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Tomorrow we're going to Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico for my sister in law's wedding. I just looked at some photos of the beaches and it suddenly dawned on me that I'm going to a warm place! I'm going to the Caribbean!I could really use a vacation. This is going to be a great one. I haven't left the Continental US since I was 15 and went to Japan.I'm leaving with a nasty cold, unfortunately. I'm

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Or, "Welcome to My Mad Tea Party".Kombucha is several species of fungus living in symbiotic harmony with several species of bacteria. Together they live in symbiotic harmony with (on? in?) people. I think kombucha is addictive to people so that we'll take them into our homes, grow them, give them to people, and those people will grow them and give them to more people, and so on. I've heard from

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