jargon and lingo
may I never, ever, be heard saying that I want to give a shout out to anyone. sincerely, older-than-I-want-to-be-but-sometimes-glad-for-it, me
tweeting
I've had a twitter account for almost 2 years now. I've tweeted 6 times, none of them earth-shattering, brilliant, or even anything close to pithy. I amaze myself with my boring, deeply uncreative approach to twitter: am I truly this dull? I tell myself the problem...
honesty
this afternoon I decided to organize my writing life. a wet version of something between hail, sleet, and snow is piling up on my yard and patio and it's a perfect day to be indoors contemplating the various paths I might follow during my next half-year of writing....
the boy genius who writes of thumbs and spoons
while searching for a gift for my step-father this past holiday season I bumped into a book by sam kean called The Violinist's Thumb. I was looking for a different book, but something about kean's book jumped out at me and I pulled it from the shelf to look at the...
research
I love research, whether it be the origin of a phrase, the date of a birth, or the history of a person or event. I'm a dedicated fact-checker, a punctilious speller, meticulous in my efforts to state things correctly. I love learning causes and explanations and...
author school
a close friend of mine earned her executive MBA recently, attending a highly ranked program and working harder than you can imagine to do so. she had to do some group work, she had to write papers. she assessed case studies and performed calculations, and had to...
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