Archive for March, 2009

Truthfully?  I had no intention of making Mr. Darcy so appealing.  The character was based on a snob of my acquaintance who employed the new-fangled "back-handed compliment" to devastating effect on well-reared ladies who mistook his meaning. I wish I had never thought of putting such a reprobate into my stories.... »

Blogs have been around a long while now.  Many people have no idea whence the word "blog" arose.  Now they have to learn even newer things like how to tweet like a bird.  That is, use Twitter.  The point is that twitter.com is a place where one is limited to a 140 characters per post, so one must keep it... »

We all know the world we live in is a dangerous place, rife with conflict, violence, suffering… well, let’s face it, it’s just a flat-out, full-blown mess. I mean, we’ve got this un-winnable war in Iraq; we’ve got the threat of an imminent terrorist attack; we’ve got the looming disaster of climate change brought on by global warming; we’ve got the... »

I grew up in the 1960’s in a Dallas suburb about seven miles from downtown called Lake Highlands. We moved there in 1962 and most of the houses were new, or only a few years old. They were all single story “ranch” houses and they came in two styles, traditional and contemporary. But the house my parents bought had been a... »