Reading Time: 2 minutes By 1979 Nixon had resigned as president after the Watergate scandal, but I couldn’t hold that against his wife’s frugal fashion choices. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: A respectable Republican cloth coat
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
