Happy New Year everybody! As you may, or may not, know, I love me a good thoughtful or pithy quote. Here are some great ones regarding the start of a new year (and the dreaded New Year’s resolution). New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them […]
The Problem With Advice About Writing
December 31, 2012 by
I realized a few days ago that books about writing make my head hurt. Don’t get me wrong – advice is good. Advice means that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel over and over again. Advice helps. Yay, advice! But… There’s a very lucrative industry out there of books on how to write and […]
Hitting the Reset Button
December 30, 2012 by
I love standing on the threshold of a new year. Even though the boundary between one year and the next is completely arbitrary, I love standing at the end of the “old” and looking forward into the “new”.Today the new year has not yet arrived. It is still unsullied by footsteps. I haven’t had a […]
When Did I Lose Control?
November 28, 2012 by
As I wandered around the house this weekend, I kept wondering when I’d lost control. Where did the control go? When did control run giggling manically into the night? I was doing so well. And then…I wasn’t. If you are one of the hardy few who read this blog, you may have noticed the downward […]
Labels
November 14, 2012 by
As I tottered around the Palatial Horvath Estate making preparations to confront Tropical Storm Sandy a/k/a Hurricane Sandy a/k/a “The Storm Of The Century” a/k/a FRANKENSTORM, I thought about labels. What if the storm hadn’t been called anything at all? What if all the weather forecasters had said was “It’s going to rain more than […]
