Yesterday was our first Christmas with our son. Of course, at just under 3 months old, he wasn’t aware of most of what was going on around him, but we loved it all anyway, and I enjoyed the whole holiday even more because I was thinking of how we’d be sharing it with him in […]

So?  For those who celebrate the winter holiday season, what writing and/or reading related gifts did you get?  What will you go out and purchase for yourself, now that you’ve heard about the cool things received by your friends and family?
Me?  My holidays mostly fed my non-writing passions - the beading fun that I have […]

(With Apologies to Clement C. Moore)
’Twas the night of midwinter, and all through the cave,
Every goblin was starving; their outlook was grave.
Jig sorted through discarded garbage with care,
In the hopes that some scrap of food might be found there.
The children were hungry and wailed from their cribs,
Their baby fangs scraping on bare old dwarf ribs.
And […]

Recently I was reading Eva Ibbotson’s The Countess Below Stairs as my evening recreational brain-relaxing reading.  I very much like Ibbotson’s clear, graceful prose, and the way she scatters the telling detail through text otherwise unencumbered by the weight of endless scene-setting detail in her historical landscape.
But this book was rough for me in terms […]