So I’m on book four of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time Series (The Shadow Rising.) At first, I chose it because what I’d heard of it came across as Epic Fantasy, with the crown passing (at least in one reviewer’s opinion) from J.R.R.Tolkien to Jordan. I needed something to read that was more like … Continue reading
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Meandering Monday about How They’ve Changed My Television
WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE, television shows were on a fairly limited number of broadcast stations, and if you wanted to see an episode, you darn well better be home to watch it when it aired, because otherwise you might never see it again, unless you were lucky and it went into syndication. No VHSs, … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about the Dangers of Magic
Magic is dangerous. (No, this is not a caution against trying to cast spells at home, although you should be careful about that, too.) I’m done reading A Storm of Swords, and I’m taking a brief break from that world by reading R.A.Salvatore’s The Dame. I’ll return to the land of Westros afterwards. A writer … Continue reading
Flaky Friday: Are We All Insane?
Can a writer or anyone else identify when they’re crazy? I know I’m not the best judge for myself, although I try to err on the side of YES, I AM (it’s probably NOT much of an error.) The fact is, we go through phases of our life all the time when we’re crazy, we … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Really Knowing
Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) once told an interviewer that he had once had a twin brother, but the two were in the bath tub together when one of them drowned. His parents couldn’t tell them apart, so they decided that Sam must have been the one who survived, but to that day Samuel was never … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Accepting Where You Are
I don’t handle change well. I tend to set certain expectations about what is going to happen in the course of a day, and when something happens to alter my plans (an unexpected emergency, or something as simple as the fact that other people have a say in my life), I get a bit snitty … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about the Shortness of Memory
9-11-2001. Every time this anniversary rolls around, it seems more and more unreal that it happened. But it did. I remember I’d gone into work early, and someone said a plane had crashed in New York, and sitting at my desk checking the news online. Getting home to my family and spending the day in … Continue reading
