In the last few days I sent out drafts of three brochures, a website, a flyer, and half of a newsletter. I went to a marketing committee meeting where I made deeply insightful comments about the virtues of using plain text rather than html for electronic newsletters. And I got hired for a big website [...]
Category Archives: Patrick O'Brian
Laura Ingalls Wilder slaps me in the face
As you probably know, I’m pretty outspoken on the topic of censorship. I believe it’s my job and no one else’s to decide what my kids should or shouldn’t be allowed to read. So when Lena received a copy of Farmer Boy for her birthday a few weeks ago, of course I had to stick [...]
Patrick O’Brian . . . again!
Since I made it to the, um, final rounds in the BoB thingy I feel under a little pressure to come up with a super-literary post. Luckily, I have a perfect topic. Not only is it, you know, literary, but also it gives me yet another opportunity to blab about my favorite author, Patrick O’Brian, [...]
Bookshelf
Well, I gave up on Out of the Silent Planet, at least temporarily. The book was just too ugly to read. So, groping on my bedside table for anything — anything! — to read, I of course came up with a Patrick O’Brian, number 3 in the series, H.M.S. Surprise. We keep Patrick O’Brians scattered [...]
Another recipe, a paean to P. O’B., and more on the ideal reader
I had my favorite thing for lunch today. Here it is: cut a pita bread in half across its diameter, then separate the sides so you have four half-moons. Cover each one with slices of pepper jack. Put ‘em under the broiler until the cheese is brown and bubbly, about 5 minutes. If they burn [...]
Heavy, man!
Here goes my first attempt at blogging. Thanks to my pal doulicia for giving me the idea! I’m about two-thirds of the way through Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clark. It’s a combination of historical fiction & fantasy, set in England during the Napoleonic Wars. I can’t help comparing the author to Patrick O’Brian, [...]