A Taste of the Manuscript
Chapter One, part 1 For the purposes of this series of articles, a spirit companion is more than a spirit guide or a spirit friend. While technically each of these could be considered companions, the term “spirit companion” was created with a specific dynamic in mind. Simply put, a spirit companion ...
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January 30, 2010
Road Kill Chairs
My friend Susan and I are nearly finished with our Art League Road Kill Chairs contest entry. We're making a dragon chair, and I'll be posting photos after the contest is over on the ... 12th? I think. I'll post work-in-progress photos as well as shots of the competition. I ...
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October 8, 2009
Painting Project Photos
My brother recruited me about a month ago to paint some furniture for him. He lucked into some furniture by some elite artist for his resale shop, and decided I'd be handy to paint some up for sale. I checked out the website, which I can't find now. I can't ...
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June 19, 2009
New Issue of Rending the Veil is Incoming
The Midsummer issue of Rending the Veil is up. Or at least part of it is. I've been late due to illness. So.... I'm letting it trickle in. So far we have: Rufus Opus - "Conjuring Spirits the Old Fashioned Way" Sheta Kaey - "The Great Work of the Holy ...
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June 2, 2009
Things Are Definitely Moving
You know how it goes when you're trying to, for example, clean out a closet or garage or other area that's very disorganized – you make a much bigger mess before you actually create anything like order from the chaos. Yeah. That's my life for the last two months, and ...
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April 28, 2009
The Book is Done*
I have been awake for nearly 48 hours, and I wish I was sleepy instead of just wired, headachy, and exhausted. BUT. The book edit assignment is finished (*except for the glossary, which I'll wrap up by Saturday night/Sunday morning). I feel very accomplished – this book was a long ...
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March 13, 2009
Birthday Coming Up
For those who care, my birthday is coming up at the end of the month, on the 29th. I'm saving to buy a compost turner on Amazon.com, so anyone who wants to give birthday gift items is recommended to purchase Amazon gift cards. My email address is sheta@rendingtheveil.com. I'd be ...
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March 11, 2009
Adventures in Dogsitting
I forced myself out of bed yesterday morning after less than three hours sleep so that I could drive 45 minutes to a ritzy community center in Kingwood (a suburb north of Houston I'd never visited before) for a Dog Adoption Day. Homeward Bound was teaming up with an organization ...
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January 18, 2009
Is This Entire Year Going to Fly By?
Man, I gotta tell you – time has just flown by since the first of the year. If this whole year is going to go this way, I've got to get organized – stat! I haven't been particularly scattered, but the time still just disappears. It's the 11th. How the ...
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January 11, 2009
Moved! and New Year, and Photos
Moved! This site has been moved to a new hosting company and a new server. There was some down time last night because I got sucked into watching Leverage with my daughter. We watched 3 episodes on the DVR, and then I checked the site to find a database error. Fixed ...
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January 7, 2009
Getting Hard For Me, Again
It's time for another cycle of "Where do I really need to be?" introspection. This whole magazine move for Rending the Veil is falling apart. I am starting to think it might be time to seriously consider giving it up. I don't want to do that, but I can't continue ...
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December 19, 2008
Friday is a Black Nothing Day
Okay, so I'm not exactly demonstrating the razor-sharp wit today. That could be because I had two hours sleep before going to my mother's for Thanksgiving dinner, and since then I have slept only one more hour. I made the mistake of eating mashed potatoes with lactose-icky milk in them ...
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November 28, 2008
Coupla Things – Dare to be Different, Tarot, Astrology
The Dare to be Different group is going well so far, attracting a wide variety of blogs and bloggers. By request, membership has been extended to blogs not using the EntreCard widget. If you have a blog that showcases something different or if you are an unusual person who openly ...
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September 9, 2008
Blog Days
I've often seen other blogs with days of the week assigned to various tasks, for example the very popular Thankful Thursday. I've considered doing something like this, but I didn't want it to become a chore. It strikes me that, particularly with regard to gratitude, making these posts some sort ...
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August 21, 2008
Project: Dare to Be Different Blog and EntreCard Drop Group
New colors below! Now a general blog group -- No EntreCard required! After a lot of consideration, I've elected to start an EntreCard drop blog group for those with unusual blogs, or for blogs by people who aren't afraid to put themselves out there for the world to see – regardless ...
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August 13, 2008
I’ve Officially Reached Geekdom
I just built a new PC for my daughter and I to share. I harvested an old Dell case, gutted it to get a look at the bits, ordered a new motherboard w/AMD processor, power supply, heat sink, and 2 gigs of RAM. It cost right at $150. I put ...
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