Monthly Archives: February 2007

I knew you could! They’re cleaning out the crawl space beneath the building next to ours – so glad the buildings are staggered!! I’d take pictures but I’ll spare us all. The absolute filth they’re getting out from under there … Continue reading →

For those of you who, like me, collect Disney movies, I just saw a commercial for their latest release. Peter Pan – next Tuesday!

Novel Delights Fiction readers score higher on empathy and social acumen tests than do readers of nonfiction. By:Marina Krakovsky Reading fiction, it turns out, is a surprisingly social process. A study at the Journal of Research in Personality showed that … Continue reading →

=- thanks to jason s for sending this to me -= http://www.slate.com/id/2160222/pagenum/all/#page_start

Out of all those Elders files I found, I could use exactly five – the rest were what I’d retyped that I had printouts for. I had been afraid of that, but at least that’s five of the ones I’d … Continue reading →

Remember how hard I cried last September when both my hard drive and the back-cd failed? Well, in a stroke of wonderful luck, while looking for cds/programs to put on my new laptop two weeks ago, I found a backup … Continue reading →

Reputation is All We Have [from the Going Coastal blog] It isn’t just your writing ability, though that has to be good, but how you manage the business of writing. Can you meet a deadline? Do you know the subject? … Continue reading →

I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork. – Peter De Vries

“Oy Vey” Phrase of the Day: The second business envelope contained a letter from Dade’s lawyer, typed and formal, uncled the one from Dade.

I just found this hidden in my backup cd from June of last year: I even considered going back to the cemetery and finishing the book there, but it’s raining, and it’s cold, and there’s nowhere to plug in my … Continue reading →

Wikipedia deleted my page again. I’m not fighting them anymore. Here’s the entire delete log on my page: 01:28, 14 February 2007 Quarl (Talk | contribs) deleted “Mari Adkins” (Expired prod, concern: Despite author’s husband’s vanity repost, article still does … Continue reading →