Hanging it up for the year
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have two seasons: Hammock and Ordinary Time. We have just entered the latter. Continue reading Hanging it up for the year
Tag: HUMOR
One writer, many authors: Authors Day 2022 at Woodbury Library
Reading Time: 3 minutes Writers like to work alone. Authors have to sell books. About 35 were exhibiting and selling, and perhaps more traveling incognito. Continue reading One writer, many authors: Authors Day 2022 at Woodbury Library
It’s not your color
Reading Time: 2 minutes I can’t quite find the serial number, but from the service stickers I could swear that this is the very typewriter that the heroine used in my NANOWRIMO novel. It’s a case of life imitating art — or something like that. Continue reading It’s not your color
Week in Review: Week 33
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the urging of some of my biggest fans, I spent most of this week working on the manuscript of “Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon Hill: An Exorcism in Two Acts.” Continue reading Week in Review: Week 33
Week in review: Week 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here we are, halfway through the year, and I need to account for myself. I’ve posted only intermittently over the past 20 weeks. Partly that was because of the state of the world. I worked on projects, both personal and professional, that interfered with a three-days-a-week deadline. I was also dealing with a lack of inspiration and material. But mostly, it was time. It was … Continue reading Week in review: Week 26
‘Inflation’ — The movie
Reading Time: 2 minutes MGM made FDR’s 1942 Fireside Chat on inflation into a propaganda short. The devil is still in the details. Continue reading ‘Inflation’ — The movie
Just say ‘I love you’
Reading Time: < 1 minutes Trying to pack a year’s worth of love into a single day of romance seems superficial. Instead, try saying “I love you” every day, in words and in action. Continue reading Just say ‘I love you’
Why the groundhog never loses
Reading Time: < 1 minutes The whole groundhog-seeing-his-shadow thing an example of a false dichotomy. (And yes, I know the picture is a prairie dog. I’ll explain.) Continue reading Why the groundhog never loses
On ex-parrots
Reading Time: 2 minutes What is it with Brits and dead birds? On three nights, from “Masterpiece” to “The Vicar of Dibley,” we encounter birds that ceased to be. Continue reading On ex-parrots
‘Margery’ character studies
Reading Time: 5 minutes -WRITING LIFE- Creating a cast for a one-act play about the medium who baffled Houdini seemed simple–until research showed there was more to the story. Continue reading ‘Margery’ character studies