Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Don’t know about the rest of you, but I have a tendency to let my e-mail pile up…or at least I did. This year, I’m determined to keep better control over my e-mail Inbox (or Inboxes, since I have more than one e-mail account). What I’m finding: bad e-mail organization/handling . . .
I joined LinkedIn years ago when it first launched, but then deleted my account because I made the mistake of accepting a connection request from someone I knew only vaguely through a few e-mail exchanges. Because of that decision, I started accepting similar connection requests. Often these were from people on LinkedIn . . .
(Before embedding, see my cartoon licensing info.) Apparently Transport Canada is banning books and periodicals from their flights unless passengers buy them after going through security. Eek. Makes me even happier about being able to read e-books on my iPhone! Hope this ban doesn’t last long. Also see: Books Banned on Canada-U.S. Flights (January . . .
Thanks to my friend Ray for pointing out the Weird Book Room on ABeBooks. If you’re looking for some literary diversions, it’s worth a visit. I would have loved to have eavesdropped on the editorial or sales meetings for some of these books.
YA author Georgia McBride has started up a community for YA writers on Ning called YALitChat. YALitChat is named after the #YALitChat group on Twitter, founded by Georgia: #YAlitchat is a weekly twitter chat for anyone involved in the writing, editing , marketing or publishing of Young Adult literature. #YAlitchat takes place at 9PM EST . . .
To those who took up the 1000 wds/day or 500 wds/day challenge last year, how did you do? And how many of you want to join me in the challenge THIS year? For those who haven’t heard of this challenge, the goal is to write 1000 words a day, at . . .
Since my mother died and especially since my brother and his wife died, Christmas has never been the greatest time of the year for me. The insistent Christmas carols piped into shopping malls, the glitter and party atmosphere, the increased barrage of BUYBUYBUY…I get cranky, resentful, impatient of the crowds. Deep . . .
This post is about one of my closest friends, Luisa, who also recently made an appearance in My Life In A Nutshell.. I suspect she’ll want to contradict a bunch of this (e.g. “I am NOT a good cook!”) but she can go ahead because it’s MY list, so there. 🙂 . . .
Arg, I’m having major problems picking up my email today. Hope itclears up soon. Andrea Dale’s coming to visit today! I’ll try toget her to be a Guest Blatherer, of course. [ 3:34 PM ] GUEST BLATHERER: Take it away, Andrea… heh, heh heh, what can I stickon here while . . .
[Edited November 24, 2021: I’m moving over some my old Blatherings and realize that during one of the many platform moves I’ve made over the years, the original dates got mislaid. Hence the mishmash below of various short posts I made during 1997 ] Post title: “Andrea & Rand” Working . . .