Author Archives: Theodora Goss

Charles Vess is one of my favorite contemporary illustrators. If you’re not familiar with his work, do click on the link and take a look at his website. He did the gorgeous illustrations for Stardust, by Neil Gaiman, which are … Continue reading →

Do you know what I’m referring to? In one of the Agatha Christie mysteries, Miss Marple mentions a gill of pickled shrimp. I think it went missing from someone’s string bag, and she figured out where it went. For me, … Continue reading →

Did you think, reading the title, that this post was going to be about completing projects? Well, it is. I completed a project today: I sent off my Folkroots column. I had been working on it on and off for … Continue reading →

One of my favorite bloggers, Hecate, wrote a blog post called “Elegant,” about the concept of elegance. Here are a couple of quotations. She quotes from Matthew E. May, the author of Elegance and the Art of Less: Why the … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, I worked at a law firm in Boston, in the financial district. I went into the law firm in the morning, and I came out in the morning, usually about 2 a.m. When I came out, … Continue reading →

Yesterday, after I posted my blog post, I started to worry. Did it really have anything to do with writing? Because I had promised myself, and promised you, that this blog would be about writing. And was it too personal? … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the following conversation. Friend: I’d like to go to Nepal. Me: Let’s go trekking in Nepal! That night I thought, could I actually go trekking in Nepal? After all, I do have a sort of cat-like appreciation … Continue reading →