Month: December 2011

  • This is how I spent my holidays: Now it’s time to ring in a new year. I might write a more detailed year-in-review post later, I might not. Bottom line: 2011 was a leap of faith, and then the freefall. In 2012 I hope to fly.

  • Note: I actually read Water for Elephants last year, but after I’d already posted my favorite books of 2010. I don’t think I’m at risk for that happening again this year. In order of when I read them…                 

  • This is a re-post of my holiday episode of Twenty-Somewhere. You can find the full story (all 40 episodes) in ebook form at Amazon, iTunes, BN.com, Sony, Kobo, and Smashwords. … Ah, the holiday season. A time of joy and laughter and relaxation. Days full of mirth and miracles and magic. A period of reflection,…

  • I’ll be honest, with the holidays in full-swing, I’m low on time, and saving my words for my manuscript. But don’t worry! I still have some really good stuff for you to read. It’s just not my stuff. “Watching Death” by Shreve Stockton I watched a death today.  It was hard to be sad and…

  • 1. The Fishbowl, we called it. It was supposed to be a study room. Just a conference table and a whiteboard, enclosed by a glass wall. Hardly anyone used it during the day, though there were always textbooks and papers strewn across the table. (Or the floor.) But at night, two, four, six, sometimes a…