Hi everyone! Well, it’s a brand new year — speaking of which: best wishes for a healthy, happy and prosperous one!
On one of the zillion discussion lists I belong to I saw the delightful news that Elizabeth Peters – one of my very favorite writers since I was quite a young thing — has […]

About this time last year we were discussing New Year’s Resolutions: who made them, who didn’t — and how many of us kept them.
Weeeellllll, it’s another year down, and today’s question is a simple one: If you made a New Year’s Resolution, were you able to keep it? And if you didn’t keep it, are […]

Do you realize it’s only about a week until Christmas?
I’m not exactly sure what happened. I was thinking I still had a month or so.
So today was a little bit of a panic as I hit the cyber malls and began wielding my credit card with great ferocity and panache. And as I […]

So…I got into a little debate with someone yesterday on the topic of chemistry.
No, we weren’t arguing over my math skills. This had to do with the chemical reaction between personalities. Specifically, why some people have chemistry together and some people don’t. We were talking about films, but I’ve noticed it holds true in real […]

Uh…this is rather awkward.
I FORGOT I HAD A BLOG DUE TODAY.
It’s like those dreams where you turn up for class, and it’s been six weeks since you last showed your face, and there’s a final exam and a couple of papers due, and everyone is talking in Russian….
Вы последние? Где ваша работа?
Yeah, a regular old […]

I was watching The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries Season II the other day — you know, the season where The Hardy Boys team up with Nancy Drew and Bess in Transylvania, and Nancy and Frank sort of…like each other. A lot.
I couldn’t help but notice, now that I’m old enough to no longer […]

By coincidence this is the heading on my hanging calendar for the month of November. There’s a picture of a wide-eyed girl in a tiara and fur — Mr. Thrilling bought me this calendar, and he laughs every time he walks into my office and sees it. I try not to take it personally.
I’m actually […]

Is it just me, or do other people dread beloved children’s classic animal stories the way I do?
My nieces and nephews are getting to that age. The age where they choose for themselves what they want to read, and naturally they think they want to read stories about animals. Because up ’til now in […]

Today’s blog title was originally titled Food for Thought. I was going to blog on the ideal writing food.
I don’t mean food for your brain, or food to keep you from getting fat while sitting on your duff spinning flaxen dreams into the golden threads of fiction. Nor am I asking if anyone knows […]

As Halloween is coming up, I thought I’d recommend some of my favorite scary movies — and take recommendations from our viewing audience.
I like scary movies, but I get irritable when the gross-out factor jumps too much — gore is used too often to distract from the lack of plot or decent writing — […]