Monthly Archives: December 2010

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. They don’t seem particularly useful. If there’s something I should be doing that I’m not already doing, the solution isn’t to make a resolution, but to figure out why. When we don’t do something … Continue reading →

I decided to start anew – to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what … Continue reading →

Yesterday night, I worked on my Folkroots column, which is due on January 5th. I thought you might be interested in how I went about it. It’s a bit of a random process, working on a column. Not like working … Continue reading →

When we left Stone Gap, the mist was still curling around the houses. There was the general store, the gas station, the Methodist Church, the Baptist Church, the library. The high school where I was not going to go, because … Continue reading →

Today, I spent about five hours going through the second chapter of my dissertation. This is what that looks like (spectacles, hair everywhere, surrounded by papers): After a break for dinner (organic hot dog and steamed broccoli, while writing this … Continue reading →

Sometimes I wonder how it will affect Ophelia, growing up with a mother who is a writer, and specifically a fantasy writer. It already means a couple of things. It means that her room is filled with books. They’re mostly … Continue reading →

Today I saw The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie. Below, I will be discussing various parts of the movie, including the conclusion.  So there will be what you might call spoilers.  But then, if you’re reading this blog, I’m … Continue reading →