My Neighborhood

John Sherck’s blog got me thinking. He has resumed his “Thursday Think ‘n’ Share,” and one of the questions was about whether the reader was quick to anger. Mostly, I have a slow temper. For one thing, I’m very thick-skinned. Insults often don’t
Published: Friday, 6 November 2009 07:45 PM

My galleys/ARC’s (advance reader’s copy) have arrived! There are two of them, and they’re paperback because they are preview copies for reviewers. Still, they have the cover on them and look very beautiful and official. I have mentioned before tha
Published: Wednesday, 4 November 2009 03:49 PM

 I picked this up at the Libertine's blog.   I'm attaching the video, but if you want the text, head over to the Libertine's blog.
Published: Sunday, 25 October 2009 03:05 PM

Sex in the Dark There was this couple that had been married for 20 years. Every time they made love the husband always insisted on shutting off the light. Well, after 20 years the wife felt this was ridiculous.She figures she would break him of this
Published: Friday, 6 November 2009 03:46 PM

Sex in the Dark There was this couple that had been married for 20 years. Every time they made love the husband always insisted on shutting off the light. Well, after 20 years the wife felt this was ridiculous.She figures she would break him of this
Published: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 03:48 PM

If New Yorkers give Mayor Mike Bloomberg another term as mayor, we'll be as disappointed with Bloomberg's third term as we were with President Bush's and Mayor Rudy Guiliani's second term.  Bloomberg is just for th
Published: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 03:50 AM

. . . .with the hearing impaired.I'm cleaning up the job site.  I ask the paper hanger if she needs anything before I go.  I hear my cell phone ringing.  This is unusual.  I usually don't hear my cell phone ringing. 
Published: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 05:01 PM

Thanks to JWL for a gentle prodding on my last post and for his post on Bill Maher's New Rules today , I give you the e-mail joke that probably inspired Bill Maher in the first place.  This was sent to me by Honey's sister who comes up w
Published: Sunday, 27 September 2009 03:56 PM

Garden lasagna, mmmm.
Published: Wednesday, 9 September 2009 11:09 AM

I remember when the words just tumbled out like music made by my heart, and the work was in keeping up with them, typing fast enough to catch the ideas before they slipped away, so there'd be something beautiful to come back to and clean up. It doesn
Published: Sunday, 1 November 2009 04:38 PM

I love every chance to go to the Fabulous Fox Theater in Atlanta, from rainy Saturday afternoons playing make believe as a child with sisters and friends in it's exotic spaces while we were supposed to be watching Doris Day and Rock Hudson e
Published: Thursday, 22 October 2009 03:59 PM

I bought tickets to see Rob Thomas at The Fox this Wednessday, September 30. It was an impulsive thing to do, on a Friday night in July, before what will hereinafter and forevermore be referred to as The Wedding (more on this, another time). I w
Published: Monday, 28 September 2009 09:53 AM

WHILE MS BLIGH PLAYS COSY WITH PETER GARRET THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL MINISTER..There is a serious Illness spread from the Aust. Fruit Bat to horses then to People.http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/hendra-virus
Published: Thursday, 10 September 2009 07:38 PM

My daughter & her three as well as their cousin came for Lunch and a Water Play with hoses.
Published: Monday, 7 September 2009 12:34 AM

Local MLA Jenny Kwan addresses the media at an affordable housing protest outside the Carl Rooms yesterday. The residents of the Carl Rooms were saved from eviction when the new owners tentatively agreed to hand over management to Atira and freeze re
Published: Saturday, 5 September 2009 04:25 AM