Happy New Year! I hope 2009 will be everything you hope it will be, plus a few surprises.
I enjoyed a positively lovely first-Saturday of 2009 yesterday. I spent a couple of very enjoyable hours chatting with a friend at table outside the local Starbucks. Then we strolled around Barnes & Noble with [...]
I finished reading Kiki Strike: The Empress’s Tomb (loved it!) and couldn’t help but go browsing around (again!) on Kiki’s website. I took the quiz, to see if I have what it takes to be an Irregular (The Irregulars are a posse of girl-spy/sleuths headed up by Kiki Strike who are slowly but surely [...]
I have admitted, here or on someone else’s blog, that I’ve never read a Nancy Drew book. (I used to get up early on Sunday mornings just to watch The Hardy Boys with Parker Stevenson and Sean Cassidy, but that’s another story). And that said, my opinion on this topic may mean little, but [...]
Yesterday was my birthday, and I enjoyed a positively lovely day of sleeping in, Mexican food, museum browsing, and decadent, four-layer chocolate cake. I didn’t even need to make dinner as we’re still surfing the wave of leftovers from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day dinners. I received some awesome gifts, as well, including [...]
To all my loyal readers, to all the once-in-a-whilers, all the pop-ins, and those who’ve yet to visit…
I wish you a joyful, wondrous, magical holiday season!
I’ll be back after Christmas with movie reviews, book recommendations, and the continuing saga of my quest for publication (in whatever way it might manifest itself).
Until then…I recommend Martha Stewart’s [...]
