More apocalypse, less angst
In case you’ve been wondering about the clumsiness of the language here lately, I should confess that I’ve been suffering a bad case of writer’s block in the last two or three weeks. Lots of ideas, topics, floating thoughts – but when I try… Continue Reading “Breaking blocks.”
In the last few months I’ve been working out more and eating less, which has resulted in a fairly predictable weight loss of almost twenty pounds to date. A noticeable amount, and suddenly I have people mentioning it on a pretty regular basis (which… Continue Reading “(not so much of a) Fat girl.”
This is like every other Monday morning, get to work, stare blankly at the screen, try to think about what I was doing at work last week or even what I want to blog about. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing comes and I give up, throw… Continue Reading “Monday morning free write.”
So I guess it’s no surprise, really, that the US stock market had a major meltdown yesterday. I mean, according to friends of mine who pay attention to this stuff, it’s been coming for a long time and was entirely predictable. Even to someone… Continue Reading “Economies and elections.”
I’m not sure I’ve written much here about the small tradition of books Brian and I have given each other over the past year – some simply rare and beautiful, some autographed by their (now deceased) authors. It was an early excitement to discover… Continue Reading “Signed first editions.”