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Almost Done

I have one final left, tomorrow. Actually, it’s a presentation, with an accompanying paper, so I am not really worried about it. Today I have an off day, which will likely be full of, well, life. I have my First Reader home with me, so I’m not going to be online much, but I wanted […]

Beautiful America: Holiday Greetings

I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks thinking about Christmases with family, and pictures of this time of year will appear here – some of them very much family shots. But I love my kids, and they are beautiful! Yes, yes, I’m biased. I think some of you will enjoy it, anyway. A […]

The Monks Vs Gutenberg

The Monks Vs Gutenberg Publishing: it’s always been a hard business. If you aren’t with the establishment, you’re against them. Then, it was lavishly hand-illustrated manuscripts (ever watch Name of the Rose? No? Go, do it! You won’t be sorry, even though most of Eco’s work is unreadable). Now, it’s ebooks and indie publishers against […]

Finals Week

So today is a chemistry exam, tomorrow Microbiology, and Thursday Latin Literature in the Americas… I’m fried. Anyway, I will be back tomorrow with photos (I think I can manage that much…) and in the meantime, here’s an interesting link, and sort of college related. 3-D Printed Pizza Natural Machines, a startup out of Barcelona, […]

Smelling Sweetly

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” –William Shakespeare When I am writing fiction, I don’t worry too much about names, either of characters or of books. I think I have a story somewhere in which the main character has no name. You see, […]

No More Modifiers

People are people. Not polka-dot people, or purple people, or people of hue, or any other modifier. Just people. Stop trying to make the differences more obvious, learn to embrace that life is risky, and quit manipulating the language for your own inane agendas, darn it! More at Mad Genius Club…

Review: Triple Header!

I think I have mentioned before that I do the vast majority of my reading on electronic devices. At the moment, that’s a cell phone, a tablet, and a device that used to be a cell phone and is now my reading-in-bed gadget. The tablet is too heavy for me to comfortably skooch under the […]

Public faces and other stuff

I volunteered to fill in for Kate Paulk over at Mad Genius Club this morning, so if you are interested in som ideas on promotion and the internet, you might click here.  Otherwise, this is an odd day, as I have the last Comp & Lit class, the last Microbiology lecture, and a trip to […]

This is Your Brain on Bugs

I’m sitting in microbiology class listening to a lecture on disease of the gastrointestinal system and when my professor shared an article I had a small revelation. I’ve pondered before the links between stress and creativity, the oft-repeated claims that depression is necessary for the creative, and the connections between mental illness and writers.  But […]

Beautiful America: Pulp Fiction

I love used book stores. I have never really been attracted to new book stores, for a couple of reasons. As a child and teen, I couldn’t afford to pay cover price for a book. I think the only books I ever had brand new was the complete LM Montgomery set in paperback that was […]