It’s going to be fantastic! You can find out everything you need to know at www.ohioanabookfestival.org. We’ve got award winners, people who are going to win awards, people you’ve heard of (Harvey Pekar! Will Hillenbrand!), people you haven’t heard of but will hearing more of, and some genuine cult figures (Harvey Pekar! Gene Logsdon!). There’ll [...]
We recently watched Beowulf on the very small screen and I’ve got to admit, I liked it more than I thought I would because there were some complexities within the story and some interesting additions to the plot. Of course, it’s that CGI stuff and CGI people have dead eyes (like the Tom Hanks character [...]
Not the gold kind that edges stuff (cards, jewelry, porcelain), but the kind that doesn’t get anyone anyplace. I have utterly failed on my New Year’s resolution to get out to the barn twice a week. I get out once a week for my lesson, period. And when I don’t go out, [...]
I get so hung up about writing posts, you know, fellow bloggers out there? I think that It’s got to be PERFECT somehow. Oh, and then I have to figure out what perfection means or I get worried about some little thing about writing and blogging and then, viola as they don’t say in France, [...]
My drive out to the barn this past Wednesday was wonderful because the sky was clear and I could really tell that the sun is setting later than it did one month ago. Yes, I do understand that the sun isn’t really doing anything — the sun stays still and the earth lurches around in [...]
I started going through some old pictures this weekend. We tend to keep our pictures in boxes here at our house and some are labeled and some are not, so while dragging out the pictures is fun at the time, figuring out what the heck to do with them can be a chore later. [...]
Quite recently, a friend and I went to the movies together except that we went to different theatres. The movie was Sweeny Todd (no need to link; you can find it easily enough) and we got our wires crossed because more than one movie house in town has the same name in the title [...]
(1) Get back to blogging (2) Spend more time with Mo (2) Organize books according to LOC (4) Take cello lessons
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line (or not) and often this is the case in narrative as well. Others promote the concept of starting at the beginning, and then going straight on until the end and then stopping (and that might have been the Mad Hatter — or the White [...]
Today in the group lesson, Leah told me that she wanted me to get sore muscles in my upper abdomen. This is, for me, a little like the posting without stirrups conundrum — what on earth muscles am I working? How on earth do I do that?
So far, all I’ve figured out is how to [...]
