Posted Oct 27 2010
As adults – as parents, educators, mentors, it’s our job to educate kids on the power of the technology they treat as a toy. On this page, I’m collecting a list of links to various resources that relate to the themes in my novels – blogs of first-hand accounts of bullying terror, news stories that […]
Read More...Posted Oct 22 2010 in Miscellany
Real life ghost stories! I swear an a bag of Hershey’s Kisses these really happened to me. Tale One: As an Italian American, I would be doomed – DOOMED, I tell you, to eternity in hell’s kitchens, if I ever served spaghetti sauce from a jar. However, I lack a green thumb and after […]
Read More...Posted Oct 21 2010 in fiction, What I'm Reading
This month, Book Hungry selected BEAUTY, A RETELLING OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, by Robin McKinley for review. I try hard not to use spoilers in these reviews but find that is impossible in this case. But, since it’s a tale as old as time, maybe you’ll forgive me for it just this once. I […]
Read More...Posted Oct 18 2010
Saturday, I had the honor of touring a local crime lab with the Long Island Romance Writers and I can sum it up in one word – WOW. In one afternoon, I learned everything you ever wanted to know about analyzing a crime scene. And even some stuff you never wanted to know. (Trust me.) […]
Read More...Posted Oct 14 2010 in Miscellany
This morning, just as I settled in to do some virtual computing research, my cell phone rang. It was an automated call from my son’s school district. Before the message abruptly ended, I heard this: “Good morning, parents. This is the school superintendent calling to inform you that we are putting all district schools on […]
Read More...Posted Oct 12 2010 in Miscellany
Birthing a new character, I’ve learned, is a lot like birthing an actual baby. At this point in my life, I’ve created more characters than I have children, so bear with me while I connect the dots. Sometimes, a character pops into my head fully-baked, tap dancing on my skull for his story to be […]
Read More...Posted Oct 11 2010 in Miscellany
The original Star Trek television show is credited with sparking the creative genius behind a number of advances in the technology we’ve seen in our lifetime. Things like the handheld computer, the cell phone, universal translators, even the GPS were all featured in the series in some form or another. For me, the best sci […]
Read More...Posted Oct 8 2010 in Miscellany
Regular blog readers know by now that a group of my twitta sistas formed a virtual book club called Book Hungry. We each take turns nominating a book, and then review it, blog-fest style, on our blogs on the third Thursday of each month. This month, we’re tackling Beauty, a retelling of The Beauty and […]
Read More...Posted Oct 6 2010 in Miscellany
Yesterday on Twitter, there was a lot of chirp about love letters. Tweep Lola Sharp (she of the awesome shoes) said this: There is nothing more romantic than a handwritten love letter from someone you love. *swoon* That got me thinking. The best love letters I’ve ever received came from son #1 (which indicates birth […]
Read More...Posted Oct 5 2010 in Miscellany
I love The X-Files nearly as much as I love chocolate. In an episode called Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’, Jose Chung, played by Charles Nelson Reilly, delivered this thought-provoking line: Still, as a storyteller, I’m fascinated how a person’s sense of consciousness can be… so transformed by nothing more magical than listening to words. […]
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