Dear Senator Cruz, Congratulations on your election to the United States Senate from Texas. As you know sir, there is a lot of work to do, and you must get started. I mean the proper and responsible control of firearms in this country. Senator, I know you are have been endorsed by NRA. That is why you and your fellow Republicans are in the perfect position to hold up your hand and say STOP! to Read more…
I have no words to express my sorrow for the loss of 26 lives in Newtown, CT. Those poor children and their brave teachers deserve more than my fitful attempts at meaning or outrage. So instead, because food is love and love is comfort, I leave you with the words of Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker. It is not often that a cookbook makes me cry; in this case, it’s only this cookbook Read more…
So much of writing is a wordage game that it always kills me to cut in the first draft. Dammit, Jim! I’m a writer, not a … word-destroyer person… Anyway, so that hurt, but what ended up happening is that though I cut out an 11000-word sequence, I had always been dubious about it, and as soon as it was pasted into the cut file (always always always keep a cut file) it was like Read more…