It’s back! Deep Thought Thursday, the blog category that no one notices or enjoys except my husband. But this is my world, and if I want to take a break from writing to talk about tooth fairies or polar bears, I will. And today, my world is full of creepy cat food commercials. Frankly, I [...]

I’m not one for resolutions or outlining all my goals for 2011. (What are my goals, anyway? Just to keep writing and revising as I have been, I suppose.) I can say that 2010 has been a good year. It was the year I finally stepped up and started sending out my stories after a [...]

Why is finding typos apparently one of the greatest joys humankind can experience? I’ve noticed it in all sorts of situations, from all kinds of people. Everyone loves to identify, announce, and then congratulate themselves for sniffing out typos. Once, I had to present a publication design in a meeting (at a long-ago job, not [...]

“When polar bears hunt, they crouch down by a hole in the ice and wait for a seal to pop up. They keep one paw over their nose so that they blend in, because they’ve got those black noses. They’d blend in perfectly if not for the nose. So the question is, how do they [...]

Does anyone else think it’s weird that we are born with no teeth, and then we grow baby teeth, and then they fall out one by one and we perform a ritual where we pay kids for their teeth? Or is it just me? Not to mention the strangeness that comes later, like wisdom teeth [...]