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Monthly Archives: June 2008
IS JESSICA SIMPSON THE NEW NABOKOV?
I don’t know much about Jessica Simpson, I admit. However I have picked up, by osmosis probably since I don’t own a television, that she is an actress of some sort; previously the star of a reality program and not … Continue reading
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DREAMING
This sort of follows the theme of my last blog. I’ve been thinking a lot of the power of the subconscious mind and in particular dreams and that short interval between waking and sleeping which is often a time when … Continue reading
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THE SECRET ROOM
In my present home we have no attic (just a hot and dirty crawl space under the roof) and only half a basement which is wet or flooded most of the year. The house sits on a massive slab of … Continue reading
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FIRST DRAFT BLUES? OR NOT.
I hesitate to write this blog because I am a superstitious being and at this moment things are going really well. I wake in the morning with a smile on my face, ready and eager to sit down at the … Continue reading
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Direct Link to No To Age Banding Petition
http://www.notoagebanding.org/
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Age-Banding for Children’s Books
Here’s a link to an article from British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, regarding the proposal made by most of the large publishers to begin banding children’s books with age-appropriate tags, and what author Philip Pullman has to say about it. … Continue reading
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Wednesday Morning Walk
It’s mizzling here- a fine, misty drizzling rain. There were lots of dead frogs on the road, slipped from their skins like green grapes popping. And a smell below the sodden earth like dirty dish water. One dead chipmunk, its … Continue reading