My first Beerfest
I’ve never been a big beer-drinker. When I grew my drinking legs it was with the help of cider — strong English cider — and gradually expanded to hard liquor Continue Reading →
Category Archives: allaboutme
Walking it out
This week, I am on Vacation but there’s been lots of busy work and lots of transit — getting Kiddo to school, etc. In the normal run of things, I Continue Reading →
Road Trip Fever
We made it through a whole summer without a road trip — well, one very rushed day-trip to Richmond but nothing compared to previous years’ travels. I find I feel Continue Reading →
Reading and Writing….
I have a blog? Oh yeah. Sorry about that. Well, I’ve been writing other stuff this month — mostly writing in circles with my “Better than 50” windmill I’m tilting Continue Reading →
Trailers for Books
With the rise in ebooks and indie self-publishing there has also been a rise in the art of the book trailer. It’s exactly what you think: just like a movie Continue Reading →
Happy Camper
The people who put on NaNoWriMo every November have started running “camps” for the summer months — one in June and one in August — basically the same thing; write Continue Reading →
Why bother?
There are a lot of times when this seems to be the most reasonable possible solution. On the other hand, there is a lot to be said for tidying Continue Reading →
Fatigued
I’ve been exhausted by work lately — the tasks on my to-do list have been limited to things that require very focused attention (weeks of OCR proofreading followed by a Continue Reading →
Forty Three
At age 43 (my birthday rolled around over this past weekend) I am comfortable calling myself “middle aged” — primarily because I think 80-something or 90-something is a pretty fair Continue Reading →
Fiction: Peggy and Dave
The photo was tucked into the back pages of an earmarked copy of Leaves of Grass. It was not the sort of thing that Susan had expected to find among Continue Reading →