Quoth Og Mandino

"Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Silent Spring

OK, I admit it … my blog has been very quiet lately.

It’s not for lack of stuff to post about … my daughter left for Outdoor School this morning, I need to write a review of THE LAST WITCHFINDER by James Morrow (which was utterly fantastic;  Morrow is one of my new favorite [...]

Happy New Year!

OK, I know, this post is coming a bit late. But I’ve decided today is the official beginning of 2010 for me. Hooplah!

Why am I getting such a late start on the New Year? Well, book edits. For the past two weeks I have been utterly immersed in book edits, to the exclusion [...]

Nemontemi

Per the Aztecs, nemontemi is the five days at the end of the calendar year, called the “useless” days. They are supposed to be a time of abstemiousness, fasting, prayer, and the general cessation of normal activities. They are also, it appears, a time of very bad luck for those who undertake to make [...]

Granny's an atomic mutant superwoman!

If you’re like me, you’ve seen this iconic Norman Rockwell image hundreds of thousands of bo-zillions of times. It’s a nice little picture; I don’t quite know what to make of the plate of celery in the middle of the table, it hardly seems a traditional Thanksgiving side dish, but whatever. This is not [...]

My rice krispy treat plan backfires, and I hate Chase

It pains me to admit it, but my self-control isn’t all that it could be. Especially when it comes to things like cake, ice cream, and rice krispy treats. So when daughter and I made a big huge batch of rice krispy treats to pack in the lunches she’s taking for school, I thought, [...]