That’s how may words I have to write in the next five days to make my (set months ago) goal of making it fifty-thousand words in the book I’m working on by the new year. (That should get me up through the Italian restaurant dinner, the people who think they’re hunting vampires, the reality show … Read more
Unless you’re reading this at some point in the future* when I am. But for the moment I remain landlocked. The cruise was a lot of fun, if a little on the cold and wet side, and I will get into that presently** but it’s almost Christmas and it doesn’t seem like the time. So … Read more
Or at least I will be by the time you read this. We’re leaving this morning* for a short pre-holidays cruise out of Los Angeles, where it is projected to be raining steadily for the next four days. But that will be okay because, as I mentioned, we will be on a boat. (Or we … Read more
It’s like being a corporate shill without all that annoying money! As an international supermodel* and renowned beauty expert,** I am often asked what products I favor.*** So I thought I would say you all some trouble and tell you about this one before you tired yourselves out asking. What is it? Basically it’s a … Read more
Even for professionals, the world of fashion can be confusing sometimes. For example, recently a trend for “bib necklaces” cropped up, and has been doing brisk business among people who, when they wear a necklace, have no interest in doing the thing halfway. They vary from the cute to the ridiculous, but they do have … Read more
Oh Sigerson Morrison*, why can’t I stay away from you? I have lovely flats, as many as any rational person could possibly need, but then you have to go and release a style with cool buckles and a sweet rounded toe, and it’s all I can do to wait for them to go on sale. … Read more
I’m not saying why I keep posting links to stories about squid that propel themselves through the air. I’m just saying: plot point.
I don’t know about you. but where I am it is cold and gray and rainy, and someone is out of Trader Joe’s frozen lunches, so she has to walk all the way across the parking lot* to go to the cafeteria. So let’s look at some lovely things to cheer ourselves up, shall we? … Read more
If you happen to have visited my twitter or Facebook or have been within about ten feet of me in the last couple of weeks, you may have heard about how I just sold my short story “Schrödinger’s Cat Lady” to the fine people at Escape Pod, for publication as a podcast and text in … Read more
Rumpole, Pensive That’s right, I’m using the fact that my poor, elderly Canon Powershot s410 finally gave up the ghost as my excuse for why there has been no Shoesday/Thurscheese/etc in the last week, and totally denying that it has anything to do with me being completely lazy. But now I have a new camera, … Read more