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Holiday, Holidays

 

This week we’re posting our favorite holiday memory. Which led me to think about last year. My least favorite memory of the holidays. We had just moved into our third rental place in the LA area. My sweet dog had just died. All of our stuff was in storage, so I had to make do with whatever was in the rental, plus what I picked up at garage sales to fill in the gaps. I missed my friends. I desperately missed my house.
I missed my dog. And here’s the thing. I remember absolutely nothing ab...

O' Christmas Tree!

Describe your best holiday memory.

Brenda starting off the week.

I've got so many lovely memories linked to Christmas that it's difficult to pick just one. However, some of my favourite recollections have to do with the Christmas tree.

I grew up in Terrace Bay, a small Northwestern Ontario town -- 2000 people -- nine miles from the next town to the west and 60 miles to the next town in the east. We were surrounded by woods and water, the town built on a glacial terrace a distance above the shores o...

Ziggy Played Guitar - By Josh Stallings

Q: Fads come and go, as do waves of nostalgia. At the moment, the Aughts (years from 2000 to 2010) are trending. Is there a decade that makes you nostalgic, and why?

A: 1970’s. David Bowie. Disco. Quaaludes. Sexual innocence. Criminal innocence. Taxi Driver. Hunter S. Thompson. And that’s just off the top of my head. 

Casual. The 1970’s were casual and adrenaline soaked. Yin and yang 24/7.

I’m sixteen sitting in the backseat of my brother’s ’67 Firebird watching as he talks to some hard men. I have...

Happy Thanksgiving or Random Thursday (depending), by Catriona

It just so happens that my new book - out next week, details here - is set at this time of year. It opens on Thanksgiving morning in the owners' flat at the Last Ditch Motel, where fish-out-of-water Scot, Lexy Campbell has just committed the sin of suggesting she cut up some fruit in case anyone feels like something fresh for dessert . . .

"Purely because, on the many surfaces around the kitchen there were: a vat of Mexican wedding soup big enough to drown the entire bridal party except that it w...

UPDATED FULL POST - with apologies for the glitch: Checking the Scoreboard with Frank Zafiro

Apologies from Cathy: I managed to cut off a HUGE chunk of Frank's post when I set it up, so here it is again...in its entirety. 

Please find the FULL POST (with Frank's critical LESSONS) below. Cathy (blushing)

In March 2022, I left the coveted position of being a panelist at Criminal Minds. This was part of a larger strategy to carve out more time for new writing. For instance, I resigned from several other groups and even put my podcast on indefinite hiatus.

As part of my departure, I made a bo...

Guest post: Checking the Score with Frank Zafiro

Today we welcome back MINDS alum Frank Zafiro, who's telling us what he's been up to since he left us... 

In March 2022, I left the coveted position of being a panelist at Criminal Minds. This was part of a larger strategy to carve out more time for new writing. For instance, I resigned from several other groups and even put my podcast on indefinite hiatus.

As part of my departure, I made a bold announcement:  in 2022, I planned to publish 11 novels, 7 novellas, four short stories, an anthology o...

From Almonds to Cyanide by Gabriel Valjan

Q: Fads come and go, as do waves of nostalgia. At the moment, the Aughts (years from 2000 to 2010) are trending. Is there a decade that makes you nostalgic, and why? 

I can recall phone numbers from decades ago, and recite the schedule and stations for TV shows. I was an Oakland Raiders fan. I remember Jordache, Sassoon, and Vanderbilt jeans. The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first MTV video.

 

Oh, the minutiae. Oh, the fads caught in the lint trap of memor...

Be My, Be My Little Baby...

 Q: Fads come and go, as do waves of nostalgia. At the moment, the Aughts (years from 2000 to 2010) are trending. Is there a decade that makes you nostalgic, and why?

 

-from Susan

 

Okay, I’ll try to stop laughing. The Aughts were yesterday! How do you become nostalgic for clothing that‘s still in the “new” part of the closet and movies that haven’t even moved to the top of your chronological “must-see” list? I can see bell bottom pants as a nostalgia item, but, please, that was the 1970s. I know. ...

In the Footsteps of Giants

By Abir

 

From Hemingway’s home in Key West to the train platform at King’s Cross Station, readers love to visit the haunts of their favourite writers and the key scenes from their favourite books. What literary pilgrimage have you made (or would like to make)?

 

 

Well what a question this is! Ten out of ten for originality. In the several hundred years that I’ve been a member of this august panel, I can’t remember a question even vaguely like this…which is my way of saying thanks a lot, question se...

Literary Tourism from James W. Ziskin

From Hemingway’s home in Key West to the train platform at King’s Cross Station, readers love to visit the haunts of their favorite writers and the key scenes from their favorite books. What literary pilgrimage have you made (or would like to make)?

This week’s question is a fun one. Unfortunately, I had a little trouble coming up with a good answer. You see, in general, I’m not much of a fan. I mean that I don’t obsess over actors, singers, or athletes, even if I enjoy movies, music, and sports....