The raving writer

Hey, I’m not writing during August. (See below.) Look what I did instead! My mother planted a huge garden this year and then went off to Seattle to visit my brother, leaving tomatoes [...]

It’s the last day of July, and I have just finished 1) shovelling the revised academic-press manuscript off to the editor who might be interested in it, and 2) organizing all of my medieval [...]

Do you know what this is? THIS is an empty house. My husband has taken all the children to New Jersey and left me alone. Those of you without multiple children are feeling sorry for me and [...]

Today’s post has nothing to do with the History of the Ancient World, publishing, travelling, or education. Today’s post is about the Sunflower House, which has become too cool to [...]

I’ve been plugging away on my manuscript for Anonymous Prestigious University Press, working my way through the checkered careers of… (Which is like a party game. What do these people [...]

…your foreign publisher sends you reviews to cheer you up. This week I got a lovely note from the Korean agent who handles my Korean rights. (Foreign sales require two agents–your [...]

So while wandering around this morning before the children got up, drinking coffee and staring into the corn, I came to a decision. I need a post-dissertation pre-history-manuscript deadline [...]

So this morning’s task was to haul children to the dentist for the six-month checkup–a process that always seems to highlight my maternal inadequacies. This time around I did manage [...]

What with travelling and beautiful spring weather, I decided that May would be a good month for the kids to have some time off school. We don’t usually take a summer vacation; everyone gets [...]

NO, NOT ME. (Just to get that out of the way.) My brother and his wife welcomed their first baby over the weekend: Bob and Baby Eight pounds, thirteen ounces; for more pictures, go here. Her name [...]

Well, folks, I still haven’t seen much in the way of reviews, but look at the front table of the Barnes & Noble on Merchant’s Square in Williamsburg! I tend to get a little [...]

Yesterday was the deadline for depositing dissertations for May graduation. After a final bit of drama (my advisor emailing to tell me that she hadn’t in fact finished circulating the [...]