Mim, Prim and Miniminy Mouthed
I’m working on a new novel and I’m sometimes led to interesting places while doing my “research” (procrastinating). The book I’m working on is set in a small town in New England and it involves a...
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Tammy and others have been kind enough to ask how I am recovering from my surgery and I’m doing great. I really have no pain anymore and feel so much better than I did before the surgery that I am just...
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Fashion Tip
Here’s a helpful fashion tip for the ladies: When tending to your barn animals, make sure you look your best, just in case your charming Irish blacksmith should show up a little earlier than announced....
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Witch Dung
“Yes, it is a witch’s life.” Anne Sexton So, as some of you know, I’m working on a novel set near Salem, Massachusetts. One of the characters has an ancestor (ancestress?) who was a famous witch. I...
View ArticleBrewing a Cauldron of Botox
As some of you might recall, I’m working on this book with a bit of a witch theme. Today I read that during the English witch craze in the 1640s, the Rev. John Gaule recorded that “every old woman with...
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Twelve-Fingered, Out Of Mind
Photo by Moses Pendleton HER KIND, by Anne Sexton I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light:...
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Hag Alert
Today I received an email from the original man of the blog himself, our very own Alan, who very gently and quietly reminded me that his friend, author David K. Leff, would be reading and signing books...
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If It Ain’t Broke – It Ain’t Mine
Somebody very kindly posted my (Leo) horoscope yesterday or the day before and I’ve been scanning all the comments because I’m wondering if it warned that I would break a tooth and then a computer in...
View ArticleJust Keep Telling Yourself, It’s Only a Movie
My daughter has forbidden me to post it. My son has left my home in shame after having viewed it with a friend. Still, this is America, where we have freedom of expression and I have made a film so...
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