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 [...]
Archive for May, 2008
The Yummy Mummy Manifesto: A review
Posted in Book reviews, MotherTalk on May 29, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Afloat in the ether
Posted in The freelance life on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Scare people for a good cause
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Vestiges of a life: someday
Posted in The freelance life, tagged friends, Life, retirement, sources, wine on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]