Whether you’re in Times Square (shudder at the thought of pressing in amongst the throngs), celebrating at home, or turning in early, be safe and warm as the year ticks over from 2009 to 2010.
We’ll probably be staying in and watching others brave the crowds and the night to wave goodbye to the year. Some [...]
Every year I make resolutions for the new year. Some I keep, most I don’t.
Take last year — I was going to finish drafting my new book (we’ll call it Urban Fantasy Opus … UFO for short) and have it sold by February. Ha! After many revisions, I am making the final revisions next week [...]
Full disclosure: I stole this question from Supernatural, the TV show that won my heart when it jumped the shark — and never came down (so far).
Joss Whedon’s TV show Dollhouse just did this (despite already being cancelled, waahh). Breathtaking.
Maybe I should back up and define jumping the shark for those of you who weren’t [...]
I love to get Christmas letters (however, like cards themselves, these are getting few and far between). One of my uncles writes a fabulous letter (red and green ink, graphics, joy in every sentence). A friend writes a history of the family medical diagnoses/treatments through the year. I love every sentence.
But, I only handwrite a [...]
I know not everyone celebrates, but I do, so Merry Christmas to you, even if you’re not doing the tree, presents and big dinner. Only six more days to 2010. We’ll be out of the oughts and into the tens. Let us all remember to write the correct date when needed. We don’t want to [...]
I write Christmas cards every year. Technically, I write holiday cards, since I often write out the cards while traveling, or while sitting around on Christmas Eve sipping something warming (often alcoholically so, I confess).
I write them for myself, because they are my one way of connecting with people I wish I talked to more [...]
In Arthur C. Clarke’s opus 2001 (which was a novel long before it was a movie — both long before 2001), there was this pesky AI named HAL who ran the ship and took care of the humans under his care. HAL liked things neat. Orderly. Or else.
HAL would not like the publishing world of [...]
Has anyone else stumbled over the series called Legend of the Seeker, based on the work of Terry Goodkind? I’m hooked — well against the odds. First, I barely watch TV, and very little on a regular basis (this isn’t snobbery at work, just too much work, not enough time, which I plan to address [...]
The Broken Teaglass, by Emily Arsenault, spoke to me for some reason, even before I read it. Something about the title attracted me. And then I found out it was about a lexicographer (who works at a dictionary publisher, my dream job…though I didn’t know it until I read this book).
If you’re looking for fast-paced, [...]
It is snowing while I type this, and school is canceled (so my afternoon tutoring gig is canceled, too). I love looking at snow falling. I hate driving/walking in it. But there’s dry wood for the wood stove, so I’m good. This isn’t a bad Nor’easter, as Nor’easters go. The ice storm a few years [...]
