Fresh new look!  Same old spelling and punctuation errors!  Wahoo!  Also, I intend to post more pictures of my pets here this year, because ZOMG Google Analytics.  COMMENTS WOULD HELP TOO I’M JUST SAYING. So, welcome back, welcome to 2012, keep your eyes peeled and your cameras handy, and let’s get ready to red pen!!

I wrote this two years ago.  You can feel however you like about the 9/11 commemorations, but this is what I think about every year.  So I’m putting it here, because I pay the rent on this blog, and I can. Also, because I am a well-trained worker bee:  the below are my opinions and [...]

…unless you don’t know where your towel is! But seriously, I’m taking a week and a half off, because I deserve it.  The latter part of this week and a half is going to involve a lot of reading trashy books and taking naps.  I’ll need the recovery because this weekend is totally Dragon*Con! Dragon*Con [...]

This is my blog, so I can also post adorable pictures of my guinea pigs.  And when I happen to have a picture of my guinea pigs wearing totally cunning hats that I myself knit on teeny-tiny double-pointed needles (which, if you know me, is amazing, because it requires coordination to avoid stabbing yourself in [...]

…I thought I’d change it up a little.  Announcing yet another Robi-banner!  See, doesn’t it feel all fresh and new around here now?

I don’t know about you, Dear Readers — look at me assuming I have more than one reader! — but I often find my deepest sentiments expressed perfectly in the pages of Victorian literature.  Okay, I read too much as a kid, probably.  But an example.  I received this picture from my father, who recently [...]

I’ve never done this before, but I’m going to do it now, because I’m all kinds of emotionally invested in this one. I’m going to use my grammar and writing blog for something other than mocking people’s bad grammar and writing. This is Emma. Emma belongs to a woman named Marsha Weaver, owner of a [...]

Today is my birthday.  I say this not in any attempt to solicit good wishes — I’ve already had tons of those from fabulous friends and family! — but to explain the change in the blog’s banner.  My friend Robi, who lists among his many talents a graphic design sensibility I simply do not have, gave [...]