Archive for May, 2011
A publishing dilemma (for the reader)
Cat Valente’s The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is now out (Here’s her talking about it, with links to a few places it’s for sale. It’s a wonderful book; I’ve read it and I will certainly want to read it again. I read it when it first came out […]
Once Upon a Niebling (a bedtime story for someone who has not yet woken up)
Once Upon a Time (which is when all the best things happened, a baby was born to a Boy and Girl. (And if the Boy and Girl were secretly a King and Queen when they closed their doors and no one else was around, who can know? These things do happen in Fairy Tales, and […]
send in the dwarves … don’t bother, they’re here
I’m getting really tired of being on the casualty list. First there were allergies for a week or so in February. Then I was better for a week, then I got the Cough that Wouldn’t Die. I was finally at the tail end of that when we got to the US in mid-April, then pulled […]
time management (also injury management)
It is 9:04 and my husband just walked in. When he called me at 6, after the ostensible end of his workshop, he said he’d be home by 7. ………It was a project planning workshop, for our new product. You know, where you figure out what needs to be done and come up with supposedly-reliable […]
the writer-blog-equivalents of their time
I’ve always liked anthogies of authors’ essays about books, their own or others, and My First Book is a good one. But wow, Marie Corelli was a bitch. I think I’d have liked Rider Haggard, though. (Also, Ruth Golding is an excellent reader. I will look for more of hers.)
we think there’s a problem. we just don’t know what it is.
The US State Department has just issued what may be the vaguest travel / terror alert ever: The U.S. Department of State alerts U.S. citizens traveling and residing abroad to the enhanced potential for anti-American violence given recent counter-terrorism activity in Pakistan. Given the uncertainty and volatility of the current situation, U.S. citizens in areas […]
the Oregon trail
We’re back. I am tired (jetlagged) and sore, having pulled a rib muscle (gardening injury!). I guess that means it was a good vacation. Short version: We spent a few days at our house near Eugene, then we drove down to Grants Pass, picked up my parents who flew into Medford (half an hour away), […]