• Archive for January, 2011

    While I Work On Yet Another Broken Story…

    by  • January 5, 2011 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    … like the one I mentioned the other day, here are some not-broken stories for you to go and enjoy, one new and a few not-so-new, all by people I know personally and do crit with (or have done), but that’s not why I’m recommending them — I’m recommending them because they’re good: “As...

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    Another Broken Story

    by  • January 4, 2011 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    There are stories sometimes that feel perfect when you’ve finished them, but you discover they are not perfect. You may discover this on your own, reading over your handiwork the next day, or a week or a month later. Or it may be that a friend is needed to show you why you’re missing...

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    Symphony of Science

    by  • January 4, 2011 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    This is for you geeks out there who love Carl Sagan. (Found via a Youtube video somewhere on the blog of my crit groupmate/friend Chris Kammerud, whose blog I finally got around to trawling through for tasty links… of which there are a bunch, so it’s worth a visit; I guarantee that it will...

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    Cooking with Pork

    by  • January 2, 2011 • COOKING • 2 Comments

    UPDATE (4 Jan 2010): Wow, color me embarrassed! Yeah, so… I actually wrote this on the afternoon of the 1st, and then schedule it for posting on the 2nd. Little did I know I would be food poisoned by the evening of the 1st, and spend the day of the 2nd in bed, with...

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    Happy New Year!

    by  • January 1, 2011 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    Happy New Year, everyone. I got a call from a former student the other day who was talking about the job she is working now, and how miserable it is making her, and how she’s not sure whether it’s better to quit in a year’s time (for the sake of her resume) or now...

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