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Defining Normal

When do we add the “D” to the PTS? Author’s note: I wrote this paper for my abnormal psychology class last year. My professor told me I should publish it. I don’t think this is what he meant, but in light of Sarah’s post yesterday, and my own review of a book that aggravated me beyond reason, I […]

Review: Escape

I was given a copy of Escape: Rough Hewn Book II by Nadia Kilrick for review. I really have to stop volunteering for these sorts of things. Well, ok, last week’s book wasn’t too bad, and a few weeks ago the Muses of Roma was amazingly unexpectedly good. And there have been books I read, […]

Committing Poetry Again

I don’t do it often, but I’m recovering from something that knocked me flat yesterday, probably fatigue related, as it has been an incredibly long week-or-so. I tend to get sick when I run the tank too low. Fortunately, the fever broke in the night, so I’m on the mend. But the brain functions are […]

Millennicon Appearance

To my surprise, I received an email last night with my panel schedule for Millennicon. I was surprised as I hadn’t heard back from my inquiry but also happy that I was going to get to go play and talk at a local convention.  Millennicon 28 is at the Holiday Inn I-275, Cincinatti, March 14-16 […]

Dragons and Horses

I was sketching between *ahem* classes yesterday. I wouldn’t sketch in class. That would be a bad example for the younglings. Anyway… I had been getting a daily artwork to look at through an app on my tablet, and yesterday’s was this neat work, “Frenzy of Exultations” by a Polish artist whose name I could […]

Database woes

I’m not going to blog much. I was trying to get a mirror-site set up for my business website last night, and inadvertently broke both sites… so that’s what I was fixing this morning. I think successfully. Maybe… >.< There is so much that goes into working for oneself. This week for me it will […]

Trickster Noir: Snippet 8

My search for a little car to replace the one I was rearended in continues. This weekend it is eating my life. Another snippet closer to publication date! I still have a lot of work to do, the beta reports are largely in, and after the car thing is handled, I can focus on making […]

Touch and Feel

Skin on skin. Touching, hugging, holding hands, stroking, patting, caressing… All those words bring so much emotion with them, and we haven’t even gotten into sex, and I don’t mean to. Touching is becoming taboo in our society for so many reasons, and although I’m an unreformed hugger, and never mean to give it up, […]

Review: Escape from the Village

Reading this book moved me to contemplate what it is that makes YA work for young people, but not as well for the grown-ups. It’s not just me, and I also know that a lot of adults enjoy the current wave of YA dystopian speculative fiction. So what is it? I think, as I was […]

Math and Academic papers

I have a pre-calculus exam in the late morning, and a take-home Epidemiology exam to turn in this evening. Other than explaining the rules of logarithms and exponents to you all, which I’m pretty sure no one wants to hear (at least not on my blog) I can’t think what to say. I did run […]