Let’s get this Friday started!
My first year in Lathrop Dorm at UA Fairbanks, there wasn’t a single dorm room door from behind which this album was not playing. And there’s this. (Spoiler alert: Her version is better.)
#thiswritinglife
This just in from the Authors Guild: The Authors Guild welcomes Amazon’s decision to extend Kindle Direct Publishing’s 70 percent ebook royalty rate to titles priced up to $12.99, up from the longstanding $9.99 ceiling. The change is effective July 7. This move also brings Amazon closer in line with its competitors: Apple Books and…
I was drawn to “Tomates a la Creme”…
A collection of essays on the art of cooking well for one’s friends. On his kitchen beginnings …as with sex, politics, and religion, so with cooking; by the time I began finding out about it for myself, it was too late to ask my parents. They had failed to instruct me, and I would punish…
Lagniappe Sunday
Quote: “…we discovered that one of the Bosnian pines on the mountain is Europe’s oldest-known living tree dated with tree rings: more than 1,075 years old…We named the oldest Bosnian pine Adonis, after the Greek god for beauty and desire.” (h/t The Best of Journalism) Quote: “So last year, after the Trump administration shut down NOAA’s official climate…
Random Saturday
In spite of an average four days of rain for every one of sun and the this year incessant interest from the moose (I chased off a cow and two calves with my car a couple of days ago), #inmygarden 2026 is not a total loss.
Let’s get this Friday started!
#thiswritinglife
Dana sez–I only wish I’d had this list when I began writing, but 40-ish novels later, I do have a few things figured out. I don’t follow all these rules slavishly. I say begin with the murder but…often I don’t. Every writer does things differently, so don’t take how someone else writes as your template.…
…it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent…”
A coffee table book about brooches, but don’t let that frivolous description stop you. Madeleine Albright, first woman secretary of state, accessorized with pins all her life, but it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent” in a poem he allegedly wrote himself that she retaliated by wearing a pin in the shape…
Read more …it wasn’t until Saddam Hussein called her “an unparalleled serpent…”
Lagniappe Sunday
Alaskans, listen up. This is going to be more about us today. The Alaska state legislature is currently being bullied by our governor to pass his version of a no-tax natural gas pipeline.* In fact, as Andrew Halcro so eloquently expresses on his “With All Due Respect” podcast (which you should follow if you want…
Random Saturday
Speaking as an Alaskan I’d have eliminated Texas, not New Mexico. xkcd (h/t Kottke)
