Best place to think
I can’t explain it, and it might sound a bit cliché, but I make more breakthroughs in my writing while in the shower than anyplace else. Today’s shower yielded an…
What type are you?
Rocket Bomber describes the seven types of bookstore customers. I lean towards being "Independent" (anytime I must stop my current audiobook to interact with human beings annoys me) with strong…
Guilt-free book club
My book club has been attempting to arrange a meeting time after a six-month hiatus, during which my daughter Clara was born. The following is a string of emails we…
Customer reviews of “Something Missing”
Reviews of SOMETHING MISSING have begun to pop up on Amazon as part of their Vine Program. Amazon describes this program like this: Amazon Vine is a program that enables…
Twenty-car pile-up of ideas in my head
I’m not sure how or when I’ll use this in a story, but I am fascinated by the idea of slugging, a term used to describe a unique form of…
A word by any other name is not a word
The English language acquired its one millionth word today. Sort of. According to the Global Language Monitor, a website that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are…
Popularity contest
The Guardian asks: Who is the most famous fictional character of all time? Tough question, and I guess it depends upon what genres are included in the decision-making process and…
New use for “Something Missing,” I think.
Sometimes I can’t help but wonder what people are thinking.
A teacher forever
Last night my fifth-grade students performed Julius Caesar using an abbreviated but otherwise unaltered version of Shakespeare’s original script. I’ve been teaching Shakespeare to my second, third, and now fifth…
Loving librarians
Thanks to my blessed Google alerts, I discovered some librarians chatting favorably about Something Missing. I can’t express how simultaneously surreal and rewarding it is to find strangers online discussing…
