Dinner Invites – 8/24

If she wasn't already on the standing invite list, Rachael Maddow would be topping this weeks invites. We are delighted for her, entranced with her, and greatly anticipating her new show. C. W. Gortner – 'cause he rocks, and his book THE LAST QUEEN just...

Facebook

I completely forgot about this, but some months back someone suggested I create a fan-page for myself on Facebook. I did, then got embarrassed at having made my own fan page. I meant to delete it, but then completely forgot about it. Until today, that is, when I got a...

This Week’s Dinner – 8/17

This is something I've been meaning to do for several weeks - I'm creating a regular feature. For two years I’ve posted mostly when I 've had news to share. This is something different, and we'll see how I do with it. I don't much care...

The Doldrums

August. Becalmed. Three weeks since my last post. Hoped for news about secret project. Got it. It was to wait for more news. Meanwhile, writing like a fiend. Reading Young's literal translation of the Bible. Finished the new Naomi Novik novel. Watching Mad Men...

Healing America’s Bones

It’s ironic – I wrote this last night, twelve hours before the Philly highway system was shut down because of a crumbling concrete column. Wondering what I should do with it, I decided to use the only immediate forum I have – this site. So we pause...

Spoiler hunters

Okay, seriously. Who found this page by Googling "Master of Verona" + Ending? Really? Isn’t that cheating? Don’t want to read it, so you look for a link to the end? Or maybe it’s someone who found the ending unclear. Hmmm. Disconcerting....