Happy spookiest day of the year, my dears! First, I need to announce the winner of the drawing from last Wednesday’s blog about Halloween costumes. I got such a kick out of your stories. Thank you for sharing them. You are a brave and generous bunch. Just know that the winner was chosen by a …Read More
If it’s flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. –Snoop Dogg There are few things as satisfying as working hard to get good at something. There’s that moment that eventually comes when you just know you’re …Read More
Bits and Bobs Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold is a documentary on Didion’s life, by her nephew Griffin Dunne. Here’s the story behind it. Does music affect you in an intense way? This is so true for me–tears and goosebumps, oh my. Why you shouldn’t charge your phone overnight. Guilty! Books …Read More
It’s still October, the spooky month, and I’ve been looking at all the deals on horror novels out there. Horror is hot right now–Mr. King gave it a big kick in the pants with the long-related release of the film adaptation of IT. That’s pretty cool. And a rising tide of blood affects all boats–isn’t …Read More
My whirlwind photoshoot trip to St Louis was a blast. You might remember I was a little worried about it…I certainly needn’t have worried because I was in very capable hands. Ashley Hercules, of Emily Miller, did both my makeup and hair, and was sweet as sugar pie to boot. She had great ideas that …Read More
Are you ready for Halloween? In the not-too-distant past, I had a lot of fun putting together costumes for my kids–but I also quite liked dressing up myself. While nothing ever quite brought me the joy I got from my ready-made Casper the Friendly Ghost costume I wore at age five, I got a …Read More
On my way home from Bouchercon 2017 in Toronto I had a long layover in the Philadelphia International Airport. I came across this delightful exhibit of yarnbombing. It’s retro and modern and charming, all at the same time. The artist calls herself Marbufs. Such joy!
Sometime in the last fractious decade I read an article that caused a great kerfuffle about the average increase in the weight of the American woman over the last fifty or so years. Its clickbait title said something about the decline in hours that women spend doing housework, which was, I assume, what people were …Read More
When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do. –Walt Disney So many people lose the curiosity about the world that they had as a child. It’s as though they feel they have to decide what they must know about when they grow up–and so put on blinders to keep …Read More
Bits and Bobs Links Tinder mimics mating behavior of early humans. Go figure. Are we really always being secretly recorded? It’s now legal to liquefy corpses in California! (I’ve always wanted to fertilize my garden.) The Best Restaurant in the World is in Yorkshire, England. Sad alert. Woman’s heart literally breaks after her beloved …Read More