Author Archives: Gwaetgar

I didn’t spend Wednesday in bed. But I haven’t been reading the Boston Globes, either–just bringing them inside and stuffing them in a pile face-down. I’m going to have to catch up with them pretty soon, but I’m going to … Continue reading →

My major accomplishment last week was getting The Longer the Fall off to the printer. That’s…kind of a big deal. In fact, it’s such a big deal, it really hasn’t hit me yet. Milestones miss me a lot these days. … Continue reading →

…until all the tea-bagger Kool-ade drinking misogynist Neanderthals stop gloating. There’s no such thing as local politics anymore. It’s really the height of irony that all these groups who pour money into other states’ ballot issues and elections are the … Continue reading →

I’m building a database of book review blogs (more on which later) and I noticed something..interesting last night. Repeatedly, if I was looking at a book review blog with Google ads in the sidebar, what I saw was an advertizement … Continue reading →

So, I made a donation–well, By Light Unseen Media did–to Doctors Without Borders for the Haitian relief effort. I considered carefully before I made this donation. It is a very unpleasant fact that scammers, crooks and con artists swarm like … Continue reading →

Happy Birthday, octoberland!

I’ve been increasingly fidgety about having no clothes that fit, and hating all my oversized, baggy, too-big clothes more and more. Most of what I own is not only too big, but stained, frayed, poked with holes, faded and otherwise … Continue reading →

Raise your hand if you can believe that it’s already the 10th day of 2010! Yeah, me, neither! If I fondly imagined that I was going to come bouncing off the long holiday hiatus and shoot right into work, exercise, … Continue reading →

Nothing like having had a bad night, and then getting up to a message on my answering machine from the Heart Station at U/Mass Medical in Worcester asking me to call them at my earliest convenience–that’s it, no further details. … Continue reading →

Happy Twelfth Night/Epiphany/Orthodox Christmas/Three Kings for those who celebrate them! It’s Carl Sandburg’s birthday today. 🙂