A.M. Offenwanger's Blog, page 52
October 28, 2015
The Apples and Oranges of Social Injustice
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A very thoughtful and impassioned post by my writer friend, Kate M. Colby. She says it so very well, I just had to share it.
Originally posted on Kate M. Colby:
I’ve been having a problem ever since I moved to New Haven. I work out of the city, and in an effort to spare my old (and beloved) car the mileage, I take public transport. At one particular corner, the corner where I happen to get off the Yale Shuttle to walk the half mile to my apartment, a homeless man sits on a bench. He’s the...
October 26, 2015
Book Birthday Party 4, the Wrap-up
Aaaand the party is over. It’s time to wave goodbye to the guests, drink up the dregs of the punch (cheers!), put the leftover chip dip in the fridge, collect the streamers, and sweep up the confetti. It was a great Book Birthday Party – one more time, Happy Birthday, Seventh Son!
I did promise to reveal the winner of our big draw today, didn’t I? Never let it be said I don’t make good on my promises. So, without further ado, here is the lucky person who won a free print copy of Seventh Son (...
October 21, 2015
Book Birthday Round 3, or: Adrenaline
Slowly, the adrenaline is ebbing out of my body. I’ve just come back from the local high school, where I gave a pep talk to the Creative Writing class on NaNoWriMo – which, of course, is coming up in just ten days. The youngest Offspring happens to be a student in that class, and I know the teacher because she used to be the elementary school librarian before moving to the high school; I helped out running Scholastic Book Fairs a time or two (being a book addict, that’s like peddling dope to...
October 19, 2015
Mintbrew, or: Book Birthday Bash, Round 2
Just thought I’d share a couple of pictures from yesterday’s Book Birthday Party. Apart from eating and drinking, we mostly spent it on the couch, reading – I mean, how else do you celebrate a book birthday?
Of course, the drink of choice was mintbrew, out of hand-thrown pottery mugs. What’s mintbrew, you ask? Here:
The beginning of Chapter 10:
‘When Cat came back out of the bathroom half an hour later, trying to untangle her hair with her fingers, the kitchen smelled deliciously of hot soup...
October 17, 2015
Happy Birthday, SEVENTH SON!
Happy Book Birthday, SEVENTH SON!
That’s right – it’s been a year since the publication of Seventh Son! I know, it’s hard to believe, isn’t it? But it’s true. And to celebrate, here’s two great things on offer [Drrrrrrum Rrrrrrrroll…]:
1.) In honour of its birthday, Seventh Son is on sale! Yes, the ebook is available for just 99 cents, for just one week! [flashes of fireworks, trumpet noises] If you haven’t got a copy yet, toddle on over to Amazon or your favourite other ebook vendor (such as...
October 14, 2015
October 11, 2015
The Stile
It’s a glorious Canadian Thanksgiving Sunday. The bird is roasting in the oven, the pies are baked, and there was nothing else to do but go for a walk. So we went – up the hill, all the way to the gate. Yes, that gate. And then – we skirted around it, and kept walking.
Yes, the saga of the cut-off walk has finally come to a satisfying conclusion. Let me back up a bit: you’ll remember that a couple of months ago I got all bent out of shape about the neighbour at the end of the road who had blo...
October 2, 2015
Acts of Random Photography
Once again, my store of wit and erudition is a rather on the low side. So, without further ado, here are a few random pictures from my life over the last few days:
Pickled Beets and Quince Candy (aka Membrillo). Just when I thought I was done canning for this year, there were beets and quinces in the veg store. What was I supposed to do? They attacked me!
Logs by the roadside
Something that would like to become a log some decades in the future
I’ve taken to ingesting drugs. Yes, that’s coffee...
September 25, 2015
September News From the Writing Trenches
Just thought I’d update you on what’s going on on the writing front.
For one, Steve & I are in the process of moving house – or rather, office: we’re still in the same house, just two floors down. My Man and I decided that since we both work from home, it’s a little silly to communicate via Googletalk in the course of the day and hardly actually speak to each other, so we’re trying office-sharing. Not sure yet how well it’ll work – I might feel an urgent need for a door to close once in a whi...
September 17, 2015
Holiday Slide Show, Part 3
Slide holder is changed. Here goes the rest. (Yes, lil’ Joey, Aunty A. is almost done; then you can go out and play. I brought you a chocolate from Germany; you can at least have the good manners to sit through my slide show, can’t you? Oh, fine, here, have some more gummibears.)
We went on a train. That’s how fast it went. Yup. You think the Autobahn is fast? ICE trains leave those cars in the dust.
This is the lovely little town of Wetzlar, in Hesse (central Germany). The town centre is alm...
