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Musings of a motorcycling author. This is the personal site of author Linda Raven Moore, and home to the White Raven Awards.
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27 December 2009
Today marks two years since I acquired this domain name Raven’s Range, and almost two years since I posted my first post. As I sit here I find myself desperate for change in the year ahead, one of which is to spend a great deal less time on the...
20 December 2009
Tomorrow we welcome back the light, which up here will return at the rate of approximately two minutes per day in the beginning but hey, they’re shiny minutes. Its rained for most of the past week, which has been absolutely wonderful, because ...
13 December 2009
Another week has gone by and suddenly I realize that there are only another two or so weeks in 2009, and thank goodness for that. I haven’t hit the introspective time yet, the one where I try to prepare for 2010, but that will happen after Chri...
06 December 2009
Today is the feast of St. Nicholas…growing up, this was Christmas for my Slovene relatives. Now, December 25th is taking over as the holiday, as the modern world progresses. Don and I just walked back from dinner with Kerry and Gavin. The tempe...
29 November 2009
Every morning when we get up now there’s frost on the ground and fog over the mountain. It’s pretty. And pretty cold, too. Today I finished National Novel Writing Month for the fourth year straight. It was easier this year because I chal...
22 November 2009
I still have a cash flow problem. Things are going to be very difficult in that department for a while. I watched Easy Rider again today. It still stirs me. I have been looking at maps lately, amusing myself by imagining how it would be to tour the ...
15 November 2009
This has been a really peculiar week. Broken, even. I have felt really exhausted almost every day. Perhaps it is the season, or perhaps I’ve simply hit a wall. Markeroni continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. On Monday I made a necessa...
Once more into the fray
Lately I’ve been going bonkers at Markeroni. While the general trend is upwards, for the last two or three weeks it seems like some new glitch has been thrown up that’s cost me from 2-10 hours of effort to fix. The last straw was the bug ...
08 November 2009
Wow, if there’s anything I hate more than wasabi and horseradish, it’s when my internet connection slows down to the speed of molasses in January and one of the publishing tools I use conspires to have a nightmare. I’m sitting here ...
On Writing Prolifically
Fancy Horse noted that I was quite the prolific writer. I have been all my life. When I was ten or so I had a teacher who just let me write stories. I must’ve produced hundreds! I got the other work done, but whenever it was some kind of electi...
01 November 2009
As I sit and type it is Halloween, one of my favorite nights, and not because of the tricky treaters (those are non-existent out here). Woke up this morning way too early (I should not have drunk a smoothie just before bedtime) but did get to see the...
18 October 2009
The week went by fast, as weeks are wont to do once you get past about 35. The new job was delayed a little due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, but by the end of the week I was starting to do my first keyword research. It is going to ...
11 October 2009
Since I stopped doing the daily images it’s been harder to remember what I did on any given day. :: shrug :: Anyway, on Friday I got a new, steady freelance gig. Actually it’s something I applied for right at the beginning, in July(?), bu...
04 October 2009
I just returned from cooking dinner for my neighbors. It was the first time I’d run amok in a full-sized kitchen for about two years, and it was pretty fun. I cooked Texas “spaghetti,” a concoction involving chili and fettucine, act...
27 September 2009
By the time I realized I’d missed last week’s letter it was already halfway through this week, so I thought “oh well.” About all I could report to you is that I was struggling to make enough money to cover even the basics, and...
13 September 2009
Things I did this week that weren’t work: 1. Went to Redding. Shopped. Listened to some music. It was pretty cool. 2. Went to Weaverville a few times. 3. Slept 4. Ate 5. Showered 6. Housework 7. Tickled the cats. Um…yeah. That’s ab...
06 September 2009
Sometime in the last week it flipped into September, and Fall arrived. Some gorgeous nice cool weather is wafting through Trinity County, and the obnoxious string of 100-plus degree days is done with. Even though we’ll get 90s later in the week...
30 August 2009
It’s just about sunset and the sky is turning pink. Tonight it’s sausages for dinner and outside, my bike clings to one of the awning uprights, semi-disassembled. I’m midway through changing my rear tire and inner tube, but we ran o...
23 August 2009
As I sit here recovering from delicious liver and onions with home-made mashed potatoes I think I might be over the hump. I had two or three days last week when I just wrote and wrote and wrote. It’s been years since I had that full-throttle wr...
16 August 2009
Well here we are again, with the temperature humid and hot, and the door open to let in the sounds of night (frogs and crickets, mostly). Up here in Trinity County it’s been interesting, what with the big wildfire and all, and the culprit now c...
09 August 2009
About midway through the week the clouds gathered and we had two straight days of rain, thunder and lightning. The storm was right on top of us, bouncing from valley to valley, and wonderfully refreshing and spectacular. It also coincided with Don fi...
02 August 2009
Tonight I had a sudden and uncontrollable urge to do some baking, and so I created shortbread. I still have the Be-Ro baking book from times of yore, and that recipe was in it, and I knew how to make it. It’s rather nice. I still have baking-f...
Want to play assignment editor?
I’m looking for short Web article ideas. My niche over at Suite101 is travel/RVing, but I would like to spread my wings a little and write about other topics. I could use a little jump-start. 1. All ideas have to be PG13. 2. It needs to be a h...
Articles I published in the week starting 20 July
Examiner.com: Historical Marker News 25 July 2009 Historical Marker 101: How do I find out about historical markers in California? Apollo lunar missions: Historical markers that highlight the lunar landing and space program What to bring (and wear) o...
26 July 2009
It has now been at least 100+ degrees Fahrenheit (about 38C) for two weeks straight, and apparently we have another two weeks to go and are looking at 43C (110F) later this week. This means that I have been spending rather a lot of time indoors with ...
19 July 2009
For me, this has been a really exciting week. I did a lot of writing. I mean, like, tons. And none of it had the word “like” in it used in the particular way I just used it. I’m talking the best part of a dozen articles spread over...
Articles I published in the last week
Here are some of the articles I published in the last week: Historical Marker Examiner By the way, if you can bring yourself to subscribe to this site by email and visit the posts online, it helps. A brief introduction to historical markers Histor...
Link love: July 2009
Here, in the spirit of sharing good websites and giving back to those who trouble to visit my site, is the January link love post for those who commented on my sites (i.e. the four Raven blogs) between 13 May 2009 and July 12 2009 inclusive. Two mont...
12 July 2009
Oi! Who scheduled a Sunday? Wasn’t it just, like…Sunday? Five minutes ago? This week has gone past in a whirlwind. I am finding the experience of getting back to work exhilarating and happy-making. In the last week the following has happ...
30 days to freelancing part 30: Done and dusted!
Add item 3 to your portfolio, and buy a gift Today’s task was to add item 3 to my portfolio, but I already put up the samples I was using a few days ago. The gift I bought myself was the updated edition of Peter Bowerman’s Well-Fed Write...
