Fine Whine

Now people want a  national mandate about the export of horses.  Every county, at least in Northern Illinois, has its group of justi...

This is the plan. I am going to rotate the four books through Select and rewrite each one, heavily editing the sex out of the first, at seve...

This is not a chart of my mood swings. If it were there would be more peaks and valleys. It is a graph of my blog hits for the week. I...

I've already been read the White Paper on why it is not nice to "shit" in the Playhouse. So I have left the Playhouse for th...

Sometimes you see something at just the right time.

Philippa Gregory says she has to fall in love with her characters. The book about Margaret Beaufort was not easy to read. She pissed...

I have the bitterest taste in my mouth. I need some sugar.

Funny how you make a very brief personal observation about how something painful once happened to you and it now tends to distort your perc...

Mood. What a silly word. Silly sounding. Something a cow did. Must look up the etymology. Starting to think Wikipedia is more useful th...

"Women are more likely than men to have rapid cycling and mixed episodes (both depression and hypomania occurring at the same time.)...

There was a kind of a joke, maybe one of those semi-viral facebook things, comparing a song of Justin Bieber's with an older love song ...

“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the t...

Switching Annie to the other breast, Maisie glanced up and saw Bob in the doorway. She actually blushed a little and adjusted the diape...

Something has to go "click" in my head. I stumbled on a blog. The guy's name was Ray I think. I usually remember the name Ra...

Well, Louie got the new transmission installed for his heart yesterday and that seems to be going fine. They desperately wanted to show us ...

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Virginia, First of all, thank you for allowing me to read your book. I must admit that while I am still relatively new to book reviews, ...

First of all: I HATE f-ing HATE typing on this new laptop and I have yet to figure out why I am torturing myself by trying to do it. Seco...

Some days I do not want to leave my bed. I love my bed. Very old, wrought iron "campaign" bed. (I do not know why they call it tha...

No matter what can be said about politics or the economy, I have to say 2011 was a year of learning for me.  I know we are always learning, ...