How to “win” NaNoWriMo
I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year, and aren’t you jealous? No, it’s not a yodeling contest in Wisconsin. Sheesh. It stands for National Novel Writing Month, the month being November, and the challenge being to write […]
Category: Writers
Reading Potato Books for Your Pink Flamingo
September is a month dedicated to reading. I’m not sure why. Reading months should be in the dead of winter, when it’s too cold to do anything but curl up on the couch under a […]
11 Days With a Lunatic…My New Job
The Job description was my middle name. Executive Assistant. It’s what I do, and I’m very good at it. I am old, however, and at 68, the job interviews had always ended with a […]
Stick ’em up: Give me all your TP
Someone commented the other day that the coronavirus pandemic will turn out to be the worst worldwide disaster since World War 2. I’m not sure I agree with that–apparently this particular person was too young […]
Are We Doing New Year’s Again This Year?
Oh, yeah, New Years … we’re doing that again this year. And after a century of waiting, we’ll be back into the Roaring Twenties, so there’s that. The Teen years? As with the teen years […]
A Tale of Three Countries
Dear People of South Sudan and Afghanistan, Your reading my blogs validates my self worth. However, you are not reading blogs even though they are brilliant and funny, a triple hee even. What is wrong […]
Replacing Oprah’s Book Club
I admire self-made people, and Oprah Winfrey turned–whatever she used to do–into a huge empire. It’s made her not only rich and powerful, but a person who by all accounts gives back to her community […]
I tackle poetry … and get slammed
My wife took a poetry class, so I, being a writer, decided to take a crack at writing poetry myself. Why didn’t someone stop me? Thank goodness I’m better at prose. Thank goodness Emily is […]
What Could Happen If …
The Harry Potter Universe is a wide one. Although Harry has now vanquished Lord Voldemort and his evil followers (with the help of a lot of extraordinary people who are fluent in magic), the story […]