I recently updated my appearances list on the appropriate page but wanted to give a shout out to my next few ports of call.I’ll be signing at SFWA booth at the American Library Association’s mid-winter event on Saturday. Should any of you librarians be on hand, I’ll be signing at 3 p.m.Next month, I will […]
I have never been a gearhead. I’ve enjoyed cars and certainly have my preferences for vehicles but I appear to have been born without the car gene. The love affair the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen have for fast cars is totally lost on me.My first car was a 1970 orange Dodge Challenger that I […]
The second quarter ended on Friday, marking the halfway point of the school year. It feels like a lot longer and in some ways it’s amazing it flew by. There was the mad dash of students panicking and trying to cram late work or extra credit in this week, but with few exceptions they were […]
Eight weeks feels like a long time and in the world of job hunting it’s not long at all. Not these days. I figured it’s time to take stock for a moment and see where I am.Every day I continue to check the internet job sites and follow the guidelines from one agency that if […]
School has been wildly uneven since the break ended on January 2. We had a snow day January 3 and then on Tuesday and Thursday we had two hour delayed openings. As a result, getting into anything resembling a rhythm has proven problematic.As the temperature precipitously dropped on Tuesday, so did the attendance so I […]
Over at Crazy 8 Press, I kicked off a month-long look at our individual resolutions for 2014. Those are certainly good ones for the writer in me but there are others that require attention.I need to start being more realistic with my time. When I was working at home, I promised myself on Goodreads that […]
Our patience for the mediocre appears to be waning with age. It used to be, if we started a televisions series and liked it, we stayed until the bitter end. In the last year or two, though, we’ve been pressed for time and apparently we’ve sharpened our critical skills. I think it started when we […]
At our last Finance Committee meeting we were handed a 300+ page document, containing the town-side budget. A week later, at the RTM meeting, we got its companion volume, the similarly-sized Board of Ed budget, which came with its very own multi-page supplement. The supplement answers questions raised by the Board of Selectmen and the […]
Some years thigns feel perfectly normal with some highlights but few significant changes. In our life, we seem to let thigns pile up so there are really packed years. This was one of them.In January, after a few months preparation, the house was put on the market and much to our surprise, we had a […]