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  • Thursday’s Walk on the Blog Side…

    In recognition of the big news about Disney buying Lucasfilm: And episode 7 coming in 2015?!?!??! Whoa. This is every kid’s, er middle-aged Star Wars fan’s dream come true. (Well, most of my friends anyway… )  I’ll admit my mouth dropped open when I saw the first link from one of my SW friends. This…

  • Books, blogs, & other entertainment

    I should be working on a conference proceedings paper due on Friday but I needed a break from that task. Beta reading 2 novels has been on my to-do list these last couple of weeks. I sent comments off on one a couple of days ago. The other is an epic tome that will take…

  • a short break from revisions…

    I guess the question is do I read, do I write a blog post, or do I watch tv? And if the decision is “to read”, then what? The 100+ blogs in my feed reader? Twitter tweets, including the specific hashtags I follow? From my spot here on the sofa I count 13 books in…

  • L.Q. revisited…

    I read about as slowly as I write. There was a time I could devour a novel  in 3-4 days. Wish I had those kind of days now.  But come to think of it, I wasn’t writing when I read at that pace. So why does this post include a picture my son took at…