Trying to Find the Sweet Spot
So many things mark our entry into older age that it hardly seems worthwhile talking about them. Certainly I have detailed enough about the slowly changing body on these pages. But I do want to say a few things about reading glasses.Okay, so maybe reading glasses aren't such a big deal, but for years, I was the only member of my family of origin that needed no lense correction. I was far ...
Social Media Newbie
Well, I have just discovered the wonders of the social networks... Too late? Hope not, I want to share you a feed where you can keep track of my doings:http://friendfeed.com/linaruI won't forget redroom with all of my new discoveries, but I instead I invite you to take a look at the endless posibilities these have. I started this because I heard Barack Obama used the internet socially to get his ...
Sister, Sister
My sister and I didn't speak for more than ten years. There were tiny blips of communication--some when my mother was ill--but from about 1993 until 2005, she refused to be in my life. Even now, our relationship is tenuous, fragile, slightly slippery. I don't understand it, and likely, I never will.During those ten years of radio silence, it was convenient that she lived across the ...
Denvention3 (2008 World Science Fiction Convention) and...
I have a minor disability related to spatial relationships, the way I perceive objects in my immediate atmosphere. I’m not comfortable driving with a stationary barrier on my left side, particularly if the road curves. As a result, I use the right-hand lane in tunnels and on divided highways. Flashing red lights at night give me the sensation of drifting backward. Furthermore, ...
Influential billionaires almost shirtless, surely crying real...
Influential billionaires like Carl, Thomas, Kirk, and Warren have been losing their shirts. And it's being felt around the world.
Many, many downloads of my new novel:...
Thank you, thank you, thank you...Since we posted Of the Nighton my site several weeks ago, many folks have taken the opportunity to read and/or download the novel. The number of hits the new book has received is truly gratifying.This whole free ebook notion is still a new one for me: offering my writing, often the product of years of labour, for nothing (or, if readers choose, a voluntary ...
My Cup Is Squashed Down and Running...
Driving home from Writers Guild through snow flurries tonight, as I approached Woodsong, it dawned on me I did not blog last night. I had ridden up to Cahokia yesterday afternoon with fellow Trail of Tears Association board members to meet another board member at the library there. We had to finish before their 7:30 closing. After a quick stop at a drive-in for coffee and hot chocolate to keep us ...
Forget about a thousand monkeys and their...
,Z,ZZZ Z LX,X, LLVLVMLDMVLLLDLDLCC;;CDLCLD'LVL'KDV'L'LKVSDSVDSVLKL'L'KL'DSVVDSVDL'K Above is our new pup's first email, which he produced by walking delicately across the keyboard in my lap. At 15 weeks, he already shows promise as a writer. Who knew? Notice how he began his story with a comma. Startling and brilliant. He has a unique voice. And we have a name! My friend ...
YESTERDAY PEOPLE: THE U.S. CONGRESS - STONE...
OIL SURGES OVER $134 ON SUPPLY WOES, WEAK DOLLAR. (Reuters – May 21, 2008) “Weakness in the U.S. dollar encouraged Wednesday's buying spree by bolstering the purchasing power of buyers holding other currencies, dealers said.”OIL PRICES PASS $134 AFTER REPORT OF SUPPLY DROP. (AP – May 21, 2008)“With demand for oil growing in the developing world, and little end in sight to supply ...
