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 [...]