Monday Musing

Part I: Teaching an Old Dog a New Tick As you may know from reading this blog, in what has shockingly-become my distant past, I used to live here: How many times can I possibly use this picture? “Here” was in a 1600-acre state park on Long Island’s north shore, a wonderland of woods and […]

On Retaliation

NOTE: I’m stepping into a potentially dangerous zone of commentary here. The easy thing to do is to hit back. The 2011 Stanley Cup final was a brutal affair that made for great television and drama, even as it threatened to set hockey back 20 years. There was an unpunished incident of one player biting […]

Redirect

Folks, it’s time for another entry in the query critique over at Carrie Pestritto’s blog. Check it out, help a fellow writer out! That’s it for me, I really got nothing else this week. I started a post this morning but never got anywhere, then all day at work ideas were floating around but now […]

The NaNo Train is Rolling

And I’m not on it. Again. As it turns out, given the way my yearly writing calendar works (not that I really have one), I don’t always seem to have a draft to produce when November rolls around. This year, I fully expected to either be A) somewhere in the publication process for one of […]

Weekend Update

Good morning! Disorganized rambling from me today…. -Went to visit the triplet nieces this weekend. They turned four a week ago. Last time I saw them (1-1/2 years ago) they pretty much ignored me. By the end of that weekend, I think I was able to sit on the floor and have them play around […]

A Thought On Theme, Or What It’s All About

Here I am at five in the morning, posting because I can’t sleep, not sleeping because I picked up a cold with a really bad sore throat over the weekend. Here I am also writing about my writing for the first time in forever! My apologies for all the rants lately, and thanks for sticking […]

And Again…The Chestnut

Here in this corner of America, Memorial Day marks the start of summer, Labor Day the end. Yet Columbus Day is, in many ways, the real end of the tourist season (though to be fair, fall foliage is just peaking now, and then there’s hunting season–but neither of those things really do a lot compared […]

Enough Already

I feel like I’ve used this title once already for something very similar. If so, that’s sad–not that I’m repeating myself, but that I have to. On Sunday, after watching a flood of anti-Obama memes fly across my Facebook feed, I posted the following (this is verbatim, except for one spelling error, and a link […]

Reflecting on Change

“I feel just like somebody elseMan, I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same.” — Jakob Dylan  Change has been much on my mind lately. Aside from the fact that we are now a week into what is that most transitory of seasons, at least around here, my personal life has been in […]

Help A Fellow Writer Out…

…and head on over to agent Carrie Pestritto’s blog. Leave a critique on the posted query and help the writer potentially receive a 100-page critique from Carrie. I can tell you from experience that Carrie does excellent critiques. And as I’ve said ad infinitum, critiquing queries is an invaluable experience for the critiquer as well […]