Since we’d marked the calendar and set an alarm, we were ready this year for Earth Hour 2009. We turned off all the lights outside the house. We shut down the laptops, router, printer, UPS, and electronics and then turned off the lights, fan, and everything else. All we left on were the appliances (furnace, […]
Last year we turned off all our lights and the computers and everything we could find in the house except some appliances. We cranked up our wind-up radio and our wind-up LED Camp light and some candles and listened to music and read. It wasn’t as quiet as the time when a hurricane blew through […]
I’ve been grappling with a cold or the flu or a just plain nasty combination of the two. What it means, other than feeling like I got run over by a especially large convoy of sixteen wheelers, and as if I ran at least 10 consecutive marathons, is that my brain doesn’t run on all […]
Cassandra and Jane by Jill Pitkeathley is a fictionalized account of the life and times of Jane Austen, told from the point of view of her sister Cassandra. So, while it’s about Jane and her life and writing it’s a step removed and filtered through Cassandra’s feelings and beliefs. I’ve read all but one of […]
Today, I forget how, I ran across an article in the New York Times “Whoopie! Cookie, Pie or Cake, It’s Having Its Moment” that stopped me in my tracks. Just last weekend when we stopped at a local Amish Market I saw whoopie pies in their bakery section, and now here was an article in […]
I’m the Capclave Chair for 2010. That means that starting now we’re gearing up for the convention that is to be held in October of 2010 somewhere in the DC area. This year’s Capclave 2009 will be in the Hilton Washington DC/Rockville, Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The convention guests will be […]
Today, I saw the news that the SciFi channel was changing its name to SyFy. Okay… but what were they thinking to do this? Then came the reason… “The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that, as opposed to the […]
I’d been putting off giving in but last night I had to admit that I had a cold — maybe flu but it feels more like a cold. This morning with a temp in the 100/101 range, I stayed in bed read, napped, and did the alka selzer thing along with orange juice. I feel […]