• Cathe will be learning the Pokemon trading card game at Guardian Games on Saturday followed by a Warhammer date night on Sunday. It’s a gaming weekend!
• This week Rebecca will be hosting a mother/daughter book club at her house for Nation by Terry Prachett. Rebecca and her daughter tend to pick more fantasy authors than the rest of their group, and Prachett is one of the best. The biggest dilemma is what snacks to serve…
• Laura Grace Weldon is writing about junk food, a sorely missed grandmother, and children as deep ecologists. Her goal this week? To stop wearing socks with holes. Small goals are not necessarily more attainable.
• Alexandra Siy sent in corrected galleys for her next book, which is titled, BUG SHOTS: The Good, the Bad, and the Bugly (she still needs to decide on the dedication). Then she went skiing.
• Alisson is just back from freezing Manhattan, where she gathered heaps of information on how to geek your NYC trip. Look for posts soon!
• Kathy Ceceri’s new book for Nomad Press, The Silk Road: Explore the World’s Most Famous Trade Route arrived this week. It’s her first as both writer and illustrator, and includes 20 crafts and activities for kids ages 9-12. Starting this spring, Kathy will be bringing her Silk Road craft programs to schools and libraries throughout the Northeastern United States.
• Kris Bordessa finally got a copy of her friend Ruth Pennebaker‘s newly released novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough. Unfortunately, her husband deemed the book worthy of his attention (a small wonder, since he adamantly limits himself to non-fiction) and she continues to wait her turn to read the story.
• Natania is just about to submit her novel manuscript, Pilgrim of the Sky, to her editor. Which is pretty exciting and in spite of a stomach flu that tried to kill her this week!
• Brigid began her daughter’s education in punk rock music this week. Together they set upon iTunes in search of classic protopunk such as The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, and The Stooges. Good times were had.
• Patricia Vollmer, one of the newest contributors, has been spending this week attempting to de-clutter her life on two fronts. First, she has started going paperless by scanning in her bills and statements.  It’s on her to-do list to scan in her kids’ schoolwork too, but that’s for later this month.  So far, she seems to have 2011 and most of 2010′s bills and statements well in hand.

Ruth’s interests all involve making things, which means her husband and two kids have learned to watch out for stray pins and bead trays and to ask before eating anything made of fondant. By day, she's an editor over at opensource.com. Follow her on Twitter.