Month: February 2011

  • The humidity makes it very difficult to stay smelling fresh. 7-lane freeways rule. Real traffic sucks. “Y’all” is not a weird thing to say. All those songs I loved in high school? Yeah, they’re still awesome. (I swear, one of the radio stations here is stuck in a time warp.) I’m back home for my…

  • A while back, I talked about my “social media dilemma.” A lot of you had very insightful things to say, and after thinking them over, as well as reading this post about Facebook pages, I went ahead and took the plunge. So… click below to Like me? I’m not gonna lie, setting up a page…

  • How to train your Dragon

    Guess what I got for Valentine’s Day? A Dragon! No, not this kind… This kind! (Although I wouldn’t have minded a Night Fury…) Dragon Dictate for Mac is a speech recognition program. It transcribes whatever I say into whatever program I have open — Microsoft Word, Google Chrome, etc. See, after just a few days…

  • Writerly Thursday

    (Wednesday has come and gone, so Thursday will have to do.) 1. Last Sunday evening, my book club had the honor of Skyping with author Jamie Ford about his debut novel HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET. (One of my 2010 faves!) I first met Jamie when he came to Cincinnati for a reading…

  • Pleasure is

    Pleasure is the alarm going off at 7, and ignoring it. Pleasure is waking up naturally at 8, when sunlight fills the room, and the dog is curled up warm against my side. Pleasure is having fruit or yogurt or Cheetos for breakfast. Pleasure is taking my time. Pleasure is walking Riley the entire butterfly…