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The Splendid Mendicants

Great news – my flash fiction piece ‘The Splendid Mendicants’ has been published in the second…

My Year In Books

I took the Goodreads Reading Challenge this year and committed to reading 60 titles in…

NaNoWriMo

Well, I did it!  I completed my 4th (5th?) National Novel Writing Month!  50,000 words…

Happy Turkey VULTURE Day!

Let’s be thankful for the carrion eaters today.  The scavengers, the garbage pickers, the gleaners.…

Turing

This is the opening weekend for the film The Imitation Game, a biopic thriller about…

Dakar Moon playlist on 8tracks

I was so excited writing about Wasis Diop’s music in my last post that I…

Wasis Diop: Music to Live To

A new album from the Senegalese musician Wasis Diop is always an extraordinary gift.  His…

Movie Mash-Up: John Wick vs. Blue Ruin

Let’s compare two revenge films that, at first perusal, couldn’t be more different. John Wick‘s…

Grab Bag: Spiders, Ebola and Climate Change

This week’s roundup of random links I learned from and enjoyed! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!    Studying the…

Grab Bag: stamps, bees and boomtowns

RANDOM   adjective  1. chosen without method or conscious decision    2. odd, unusual, or unexpected…