I've been busy with my parttime gig writing for a new website called Chicks in the Huddle. One of my sisters-in-law saw an ad on Craigslist New Orleans looking for women who loved NFL football, especially the New Orleans Saints, and were interested in writing for a new website geared toward female fans. So I responded and sent links to a few of ( Read more... )

Juannie and I have been busy choosing, spending, assembling and organizing. We finally have a functional and comfortable living room with our first bookshelf post-Katrina. There's nothing on the walls yet. That's my latest project. I am selecting the best of my photography and printing and framing it for display all over the house ( Read more... )

I have a lot to say, I have nothing to say. It is the age of mental activity, it is the age of physical slothfulness. It is the epoch of expansion, it is the epoch of inversion. It is the season of rain, it is the season of dryness ( Read more... )

101 Greatest Screenplays as rated by Writers Guild of America ( Read more... )

Someone just posted this in books. I don't remember hearing about it back in September ( Read more... )

74 Facts And One Lie by Sheila O'Malley.

I cried when I read the last few sentences of this. Amazing!

I was so caught up in writing this morning that I didn't notice that Rachael Ray was nattering on in the background. Usually, her nasally voice and goofy sayings make me rush to change the channel. Juannie came home from the grocery and said in a stunned tone, "You are watching Rachael Ray?" I told him that I was too busy to even notice that she  ( Read more... )

"A study of when new words became common during the past century has had some surprising findings, such as the word "celebs" being used in 1913, the word "sex" meaning sexual intercourse being first used in 1929, and "mobile phone" dating from 1945 ( Read more... )