1. This weekend, the annual Children’s Festival of Arts took place and mad creativity ensued. I didn’t take pictures of wooden boat building, dueling, fairy houses, pottery wheels, etc. because there was only so much time. But a good time was had by all, and the Queen of Arts cleared my head from creative cobwebs, which is as good if you’re a writer as getting your bike blessed if you’re in the Hell’s Angels.

2. Still Alive is ridiculously singable, and the trailers for Portal 2 look and sound like mental crack. I should probably not buy
Portal 2
if I want to write any more books this year.

3.The official coldest April in recorded Seattle history is over. Which is good because I refused to buy a maternity coat on the grounds that I didn’t need one in the PNW and would never wear it again.

4. I keep picking hikes I want to do out of our Olympic Trail Guide (and we’ve gone through a lot of this book in the years we’ve owned it) and then cross-checking to see how far we’d be from a hospital, and then saying “next year”. Which is why we’re not currently hiking the Olympic wilderness to see
petroglyphs
.

5.  Recently read Lynn Viehl’s wonderful free novella
Dark of Heart
, which takes place alongside her YA debut on sale in May. Can’t wait for that release!