Wandering around in the Renaissance
This week I’ve been taking care of various Peace Hill Press duties, meditating on the format for the middle-grade levels of the Writing With Ease series…and turning back to work, in [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-26
Family day today: off the grid. # It would be way easier to go off the grid if business problems didn’t hunt you down, Terminator-like, and shake you around by the throat. # Would be [...]
Weeks 28, 29 and 30 of the “52 Books” challenge
Books for the last three weeks: two more disaster books, and a play. I think I’m almost off my disaster-book jag here, but I had two more on my stack and decided to read them as a follow-up [...]
My adventures with Amazon.com’s Author Page
I visited Amazon a couple of days ago, blamelessly wishing to buy a couple of books, and an invitation popped up: if I happened to be the author of The History of the Ancient World, The [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19
Still sitting at kitchen table, trying to finish manuscript. German shepherd still sleeping, border collie in fight to death with pine cone. # Will…finish….MS…today. 5 sets of [...]
A milestone
So Tuesday I finished a manuscript, and now for the first time in seven years I’m not playing catch-up with my writing. The manuscript was the last workbook in an elementary writing series [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-12
Family day. I want to go do something FUN. # Kids heading off to visit cousins; next few days all about finishing Writing With Ease Workbook 4. Might also watch a disaster movie or two. # [...]
Midsummer evening on the farm
Husband and kids are visiting cousins for a couple of days, I’m writing and writing and writing and all out of words. So…pictures I took on today’s evening walk. Click for a [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-05
Family day: no phone, no email, no business, many cookies. # Watching Bruce Greenwood in “Nowhere Man.” That was a brilliantly written series. And, naturally, very short-lived. # [...]
Weeks 26 and 27 of the “52 Books” challenge
Time for another pair of quick book reports… Last week I picked up a disaster book that was on the New Books shelf of the Williamsburg library: A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism [...]
Further thoughts on Sanford…
That is, if you’re not sick of the topic. Here are a few of my thoughts: in the Washington Post, and in two audio interviews that ran on NPR stations this morning. [...]