Brenda Novak’s 2008 Online Auction to Benefit Diabetes Research starts tomorrow and there about a gazillion things I’d like to buy—starting with the autographed Ali photo. One thing that really caught my eye—some of the editorial evaluations have a promised response time, ranging from 24 hours to 2 weeks. Dayum! Considering I’ve had a partial [...]
Archive | April, 2008
Letters to the Idols: Neil Diamond Week
Neil Diamond? Oh, come on! What’s next? Julia Ward Howe week? Digression—NCIS: Anybody else think the giving of the laptop would have been more touching if she’d given her the power cord, too? Anyway…(Pleasepleaseplease don’t let Archuleta sing “Sweet Caroline”.) Crap, they’re each doing two songs tonight. I’ll take the performances in order rather than [...]
Baby? What baby?
My unabashed adoration for secret baby romances isn’t something I keep buried behind the bassinet. I’ve even written two of them myself. As a reader I’ve gone through a ton of them, and I have certain expectations: 1. Whatever separated them post-conception can’t sustain the book. There has to be a conflict in the here [...]
Shorts, snowballs and sharks
We made a fairly last minute decision to go north this weekend. While we couldn’t ride the ATVs because it’s mud season, the water was back on in the campground so we got to open up the camper for the season. Air it out, do some raking, sit on the deck. Seriously strenuous stuff. Nothing [...]
RTB and a convo with the TK
Despite chaos ensuing due to bathroom demolition, a last-minute decision to go out of town this weekend (which I’m frantically preparing for) and what should have been an easy Trend Micro renewal turning into a horror show that took both of my computers down for hours, I managed to get a post up at Romancing [...]
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