Interviewing Protagonist Rowan Layne On World Pistachio Day
Today is apparently World Pistachio Day, so in honor of pistachio-shaped iridescent alien spacecraft in my Other Worldly novels, as well as the alien-green hue of pistachios themselves, I thought it would be fun to do something lighthearted (I know I need it) for this week’s blog post. First, a caveat. I got the idea […]
Reckoning For Selfish Greedy Gun Mongers
I’ve delayed in writing my blog post this week because the subject of corruption, in particular lawyers, judges, and six justices of the not-so-Supreme Court, has become overwhelmingly tiresome and disgusting. Holding greedy men accountable happens few and far between in this nation, and it takes far too long for justice to be served. Yesterday […]
Lamentations On Lost Love
Valentine’s Day doesn’t usually get to me. It’s not even the day itself that’s a problem this year. Though today does tend to be relentlessly aimed at making many feel as if they don’t measure up because they haven’t got a mate, per societal dictates. Being single and going solo in life is a choice […]
An Opinion Worth The Wait and Worry
It took three women judges and nail-biting weeks to get it done, but it was worth the wait. U.S. v Trump, a unanimous appellate decision rendered by Judges Henderson, Childs, and Pan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia arrived yesterday at long last. I decided to peruse the 57-page decision for […]
Honeycrisp Apple Parentage, An Uncanny Gene Theme
This post is dedicated to my parents, because yesterday was their 69th wedding anniversary. I know, that’s a lot. So many years that I mistakenly wished them a happy 59th, and my mother had to correct me. If they’d been married only 59 years ago, both my sister and I would have been born out […]
Voter Suppression Made Easy With DeJoy Still Postmaster General
As law professor and MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance said today in her Civil Discourse newsletter, voter suppression has long been a part of the US election landscape. Problem is, it hasn’t long been prosecuted for the rampant and blatant crime that it is. Vance was specifically addressing fake Biden robocalls to New Hampshire Democrats […]
Gal Pals Are Life’s “Listening” Umbrella
I use rubber stamps to make handcrafted cards, as does my Other Worldly protagonist Rowan Layne. One says, Girlfriends Matter, and the other, Friends are the umbrella in the storms of life. Before I delve into this gal pal subject further, some background on how it occurred to me as a focus for this post. […]
Time Is Loopy And So Am I
I was thinking about how time got away from me this week, as I meant to post on my blog yesterday, then I reverted straight to the realization of how silly it is that humans think they can control time, buy time, hold time in their hands…you get the idea. Time doesn’t get away from […]
Pesky Typos Happen To The Best Of Us
There’s this funny—or at least it makes me chuckle as well as groan—bit of snark seen on Facebook, posted among writers groups, that goes something like this, although I’ve embellished it herein for effect and to indulge personal flair: Here’s to all the typos, misspellings, and other inexplicable maddening glitches that persevere despite a writer’s […]
Post-Yule Yearend Musings Over Spilt Coffee
For the past week I’ve been writing again like a fiend, working on my seventh novel of my Other Worldly series, Aliens Watch. And fiend is the attempted first word I used for Wordle today, just for kicks, which wasn’t the puzzle-solving word, so don’t anyone get their panties in a spoiler-alert wad because I’ve […]