Monthly Archives: June 2009

We received our first significant rainfall for the month of June yesterday evening. Of course, it started when my wife and I were halfway through our constitutional, at the point of no return. It started with a few sporadic drops, … Continue reading →

I read Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain cover to cover yesterday and posted my review last night. A fast-paced serial killer novel, third in the series. It doesn’t come out until September but since I had to review it for … Continue reading →

We have a patio table with umbrella on our back deck, the base which is supported by a large, tapered stone. Lately, one of the local squirrels, of which there are many, has taken to sprawling on this stone in the hot afternoons, … Continue reading →

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I received a two-page e-mail from my agent yesterday with detailed feedback about my most recent novel. He’s a very perceptive reader, and picked out some thematic elements that I hadn’t planned but are obvious in retrospect. He also had some … Continue reading →

I was one of the millions of people who had Farrah plastering their walls in the 1970s. Not just the famous poster, but pretty much every poster available. I’ve always been partial to the one at the right (left in … Continue reading →

It’s another scorcher out there today. 101° by late afternoon. It’s not too bad so long as you stay in the air conditioning. It’s supposed to “cool off” by Sunday, when the forecast high is only 94°. A little more … Continue reading →

It was 100° according to my car thermometer when I left work yesterday afternoon, and the same is predicted for the rest of the week. The heat index adds about 8-10° to that. Chance of rain: an optimistic 15% each … Continue reading →

The long awaited return of Torchwood is nearly here. The five-part miniseries event “Children of the Earth” will air in the UK starting on Saturday, July 4. BBC America will start it on July 20th. See a trailer here, along … Continue reading →

I read the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” to my wife last night as a follow up to seeing the movie the night before. As I expected, there was very little overlap between film … Continue reading →