Laurie Gold (aka The DIK Goddess) blogged this week on a disappointing rip-off, another blog that calls itself DIK or some such thing. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Mrs. Woolf & the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service
Of all stratums of society, that of the female serving class is the least examined. Whether that’s because it is, to a great extent, ‘women’s work’, and women have always suffered from poor representation in the written history of the world—their sphere is considered by many to be unimportant in the vast arena of politics, war, education—or if it’s simply that for much of history illiterate, they could often not tell their own story, doesn’t matter. So much is lost, and for a writer, that’s a terrible pity. Continue reading
Filed under Books, My Summer Reading 2008
Pooping Puffins and other Political Oddities
In the vast quagmire that is North American politics, it may escape the notice of our friends to the south (and north… mustn’t forget Alaska) that Canada, too, is about to have a federal election.
What, you say… but there hasn’t been a couple of years of electioneering! That’s because of that miracle of Canadianism, Continue reading
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For Better or Worse
Every romance writer struggles with finding the words to properly describe what love and romance, marriage and commitment should be.
I found inspiration this week in an unlikely place, the funny pages. Continue reading
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