A new year is about to start and that can only mean one thing. (Or two things if you include trying to figure out WTF “Auld Lang Syne” means…) All over the world, people are about to go to a lot of time and trouble to come up with New Year’s resolutions and then they will actually try to keep those resolutions. This is so wrong in so many ways:
What’s the best thing about renting a house for the holidays? Between my jeans with stretch lycra and the fact that …
As part of Hugh’s Charity Christmas Tree Topper Photo Challenge, the incredibly generous Hugh will donate £1 to The …
So… you want to write a fantasy novel? I know! You could have a medieval-type world where the Dark Lord, once …
While I’m travelling this week, here’s another Blast from Barb’s past — originally published in Champaign Urbana News Gazette, December, …
Before cashing in all my karma vouchers to reach this enlightened plane of existence where I’m a writer and all my days are Saturdays, I headed up human resources for a series of technology companies. (Translation: I fired people.)
You might have heard me mention a time or twenty that I enjoy tropes. [Hey! that’s a rhetorical question—don’t think I can’t see you rolling your eyes…]
I wish I could explain to Donald Trump what I told them. “There’s no such thing as Politically Correct. It’s just your way of saying that a big issue doesn’t exist because you don’t value it. So you deflect the debate onto what constitutes humor, or workplace camaraderie, or whatever else you want to call it. But to paraphrase the Bard—A turd by any other name would still smell like crap.”
Hooray! I’m so thrilled that Null City won the Golden Rose. Thanks so much to all who voted, and congratulations …
I‘ll admit it. The only reason I started this blog was that I’d written a book and a trusted advisor …
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