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The Blackmail Caucus – NYTimes.com

The Blackmail Caucus – NYTimes.com.

Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies | Mother Jones

This is the article about sugar in Mother Jones.

Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies | Mother Jones.

Food Politics » Mother Jones: How the industry minimized and minimizes the health effects of sugars

Food Politics » Mother Jones: How the industry minimized and minimizes the health effects of sugars.

A Mish-Mash

Goodness. I have all these photographs and you haven’t seen any of them. To remedy the situation, here they are, in no particular order:

Pumpkin martinis. That’s a cinnamon-sugar rim.

At the tide pools in Half Moon Bay

With friends at Butano State Park

One of the reasons I love Butano

Making the pumpkinliqueur for the martinis

My adorable grandson

See? I’ve been busy!

The Time Travel Journals: Bridgebuilders – Live!

I am super -excited to announce the publication of the second book in the Time Travel Journals series:

BRIDGEBUILDERS

This book follows Casey’s and Tom’s granddaughter, and a younger Sam Altair, into the future! If you want a preview, you can find the first seven chapters under the Novels page. Or click here.

If you know you want it (of course you know you want it!), here’s where it’s for sale:

Amazon (Paperback)

Amazon (Kindle)

Smashwords (all other eformats, including Apple and B&N)

Kobo (ebook)

Pl...

Samhain is Here!

Happy Samhain to the Whole World!

What? The whole world doesn’t celebrate Samhain? Their loss. Although I beg to dither over the point. I think every culture has some kind of harvest celebration, which is what Samhain is, at its most basic level.

If it’s harvest, then why the scary costumes, ghosts, and zombies? I’m no expert, but my understanding of it is this:

In the Celtic tradition, Samhain is New Year’s Eve. It’s a time when the veil between spirit and flesh is thinnest. The spirits take ad...

The Next Big Thing

Thanks to Amy Raby for tagging me in this blog-go-round. I’m supposed to answer ten questions about my work-in-progress. I have several of those, but since this is called The Next Big Thing, I thought I’d talk about the book I plan on publishing next.

I know that Bridgebuilders will be published on Wednesday, but I’ve been talking about that one for ages. So this time, I’ll talk about thenextbook on my publishing conveyor belt.

When you’re done with that, hop over and read about Amy’s Next Big...

The Time Travel Journals: Bridgebuilder Chapter 7

The final advance chapter of Bridgebuilders is up! You’ll find a special surprise at the end. Thank you for reading!

Remember, the book is officially for sale beginning November 1. I’m excited! Hope you are, too!

On the Tragedy of Deaths of People Who Never Lived « The Monster’s Ink

On the Tragedy of Deaths of People Who Never Lived « The Monster’s Ink.

Another Place at the Table

This morning’s SF Chronicle’s Pink Section has an article about the movie “The Other Son,” directed by Lorraine Levy. It’s about two families – one Jewish, one Arab – in the city of Haifa.

It’s a fictional story based on historical events, in this case, the Israeli conflict in 1991. The maternity hospitals had to evacuate, and stories have emerged about infants being given to the wrong families in the aftermath.

“The Other Son” shows us two families who discover they have this problem when the...