As is the case for many of you, I have spent the past week preparing for the pandemic. I have bought more groceries in the past week than I have in the past six months (I’m not much of a cook). I didn’t go nuts buying toilet paper of cleaning supplies, but I have a … Continue reading The Calm Before The Storm
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James I got this book as my Book of the Month Club selection back in January. I hadn’t heard of it before but once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. It was absolutely riveting and I read it in a span of about two days. — … Continue reading Book Review: The Sun Down Motel
I was about five years old when it began. An older friend lived three houses down on the same street. We would be playing, and then I would start begging her. Eventually, I would wear her down, even though we both knew how it would end. She would pull down her collection of Scholastic “Haunted” … Continue reading Beyond the Veil: My Feelings on Ghosts
Below is a list of books I recommend to take your mind off what’s going on in the world. I have separated them by genre and included a short blurb. For all of these, they are (as far as my memory serves) contagion, plague, and apocalypse-free. Romance A Rogue By Any Other Name by Sarah … Continue reading Books to Read During the Pandemic
I was up into the wee hours of the morning reading. Not because the book was that excellent (though it was good). I needed to keep myself from looking at my phone, from watching the news, from seeing anything else about the pandemic for one night. I’ve never been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder though … Continue reading COVID-19 and Logging Off
In spite of my general winter induced unproductiveness, there is one thing that I have been working on with more devotion that I had expected. I have been writing like crazy (at least compared to my usual non-Nano writing). For years, I have nailed NaNoWriMo and then returned to writing a hundred words here and … Continue reading Breaking Through A Writing Slump
The Holdout by Graham Moore I first heard about this book at some point last fall. It had come highly recommended by an established author who had received an advance copy. Based on this recommendation, I pre-ordered the book on Amazon and anxiously awaited it’s arrival. It wasn’t worth the wait. — Mild spoilers ahead … Continue reading Book Review: The Holdout
So, it’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything here. (And a lot of what was posted had been written and scheduled in late summer.) There are a couple of reasons for that, which I will get into, but it mainly traces back to one general theme: Winter Sucks. My day job is linked to … Continue reading It’s Been Awhile, Or Why Winter Sucks
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. Abraham Lincoln Continue reading Quote of the Week – December 30, 2019
