Because life is too short to read crap

Like more than 20 million other people, I read e-books on a Kindle, and my favorite genre is romance. A quick search on Amazon for romance titles this morning yielded me 365,065 options to choose from. I know from experience that there are treasures to be found all the way up and down the charts.Continue reading “Because life is too short to read crap”

A Letter to Amazon

Dear Mr. Bezos, I was very excited to receive your Email request this morning, asking for my help in your battle against Hachette. Not since Carrie White got invited to the prom has a girl been more pleasantly shocked to be included. And you’re right; those big publisher types are just fuckers. I was aContinue reading “A Letter to Amazon”

Repost: The Teacher

I originally posted this very short story December 16th of last year.  Teachers and students of Sandy Hook, we still remember you. The Teacher The gunshots were loud, close, coming closer.  Later some of her friends who lived would be saying it had all happened so fast.  But she knew she wouldn’t be with them.Continue reading “Repost: The Teacher”

Some random thoughts about the 2013 Golden Globes

I’m an awards show junkie.  Have you ever wondered who the lunatic is who’s actually watching all that red carpet coverage on E! and actually reading the crawl at the bottom of the screen and actually knows the names of all those deeply freakish-looking fashion “experts” prattling into the camera?  Yeah, that would be me.Continue reading “Some random thoughts about the 2013 Golden Globes”