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{ Monthly Archives } February 2006

Snarky Crafts

When you’ve almost come to the end of the cur­rent list of craft pro­jects (some­thing that will prob­ably apply to me in about, oh, the year 2012 or so if I’m lucky), and you’re look­ing around for ideas, here are a couple of web sites you might enjoy. Actu­ally, look at them before you get […]

Courage and Cancer

Not many people are brave enough to go pub­lic with intim­ate details of med­ical prob­lems, espe­cially can­cer, and to start going pub­lic when the prob­lem is dia­gnosed, not just when it’s cured. Ken Hol­man is one of those rare people who have done so, and in email with him shortly after he came out of […]

Kate Atkinson’s “Emotionally Weird”

Kate Atkinson’s “Emo­tion­ally Weird” (Amazon link link, Pow­ells link) is another book­club selec­tion, and is per­haps not the easi­est book to write about. As befits the title, the entire book is weird both in plot and in con­struc­tion, and at times feels a little over-clever, as if parts were intro­duced as some sort of game […]

NV 2006

At North­ern Voice this year I was jet-lagged, hav­ing arrived from Rome about 10 pm the night before, so didn’t make it to any­where near the num­ber of talks I wanted to go to. I did go to Nancy White’s, which was an excel­lent, lively, enter­tain­ing ses­sion. It gave me lots to think about in […]