The Yummy Mummy Manifesto: A review

I have been trying to break out of the domestic mold for some time now. I bought girl clothes, attended a grown-up party, and made a new friend whose children are so close to being out of the house that talking kid stuff is just not a temptation. So when MotherTalk presented the opportunity to [...]

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Afloat in the ether

When I was working tech support, we used to joke that emails that were never delivered and never got bounced had been “lost in the ether.” You know, because the university had Ethernet.
Okay, geek joke. One that turned out to be not so funny this week when I realized that not only had a message [...]

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Scare people for a good cause

Shroud Publishing has a new anthology in the works. Proceeds from the sales of Northern Chill (tentative): 100 Terrifying New England Tales to Tell Around a Campfire will go to the American Cancer Society. Why? At the Shroud forum, an email from author Nate Kenyon discussed the impact of cancer on his life. His words [...]

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Social graces? What social graces?

A few weeks ago I attended a Women’s Expo in Portland ME. It was okay. Lots of crafts, makeup, food, jewelry… you know. Chick stuff.
But there was also a corner reserved for Usborne books. I flipped through a couple and was immediately struck by the colors, the facts, the quality. They were having a buy-5-get-the-5th-free [...]

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Vestiges of a life: someday

Ordinarily, it’s easy for me to ignore the fact that I never get out. That my brainpower is most often put toward trying to read the minds of small people who can barely communicate, and in fact that most of my interests–writing, reading, gardening–keep me here at home.
On occasion these ideas break through, such as [...]

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