Monthly Archives: July 2008

Last night I caught up on the first episode of Big Brother 10. An interesting mix of people, as always. It turns out that three of the contestants are from this area, one from the village where I live, one … Continue reading →

Burn Notice was back in style this week. I was wondering how the cliff-hanger from last season was going to resolve itself, and I still wonder if the writers had a plan when they put Michael’s car in the back … Continue reading →

Didn’t get much writing done this morning. I plan to tackle one of the new short stories this weekend, and I’m leaning toward the caper story, but my mind could change between now and then. I’m about halfway through The … Continue reading →

I made two more editing passes through my newest short story, one with a pen last night and one on-screen this morning. I keep finding better ways of saying things. Word choice seems especially important in this story, for some … Continue reading →

Can you tell I’m looking forward to it? I fly out at the crack of dawn on Thursday morning to arrive in Rhode Island that afternoon. Then it’s three days of aaaaaaah. This morning, I finished and posted my Storytellers … Continue reading →

Our company gave us a floating holiday yesterday, so I had a four-day weekend. It was a nice escape, even though we didn’t go anywhere. Sometimes the best vacations are spent chez nous. I got some work done. Dabbled at … Continue reading →

Watched Fear Itself this week because the script was by Rich Chizmar and Jonathan Schaech. It was a decent little scare-fest about a shape-shifting people eater. A few nods to the genre: a cop named Bannerman and a magazine called … Continue reading →

I finished The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow last night. Decent book—I would try others by him in the future, especially if they feature the same cast of characters as this one. I’m not sure what I’m going to pick … Continue reading →

In about 1638, a family migrated from Bagneux, Picardie, France, to Quebec. At the time they relocated (a word that must blush in the light of what that move involved), Pierre Gareman and his wife Madeleine (nee Charlot) had two … Continue reading →

Happy Canada Day! My subject line today is a snippet of the French lyrics for O Canada, and seems appropriate to the genealogy work I’ve been doing lately. The English line is “Our home and native land,” whereas the French … Continue reading →