One of the toughest things to deal with, having a chronic illness, is how many other things that that one illness affects. I went a really long time before getting diagnosed doing a lot of harm to myself. I was, effectively, dying, but it was taking me an incredibly long time to do it. I […]
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This is the first thing I’m getting when I get real insurance coverage. The more I hear about it, the more I love it. Now I just need someone to cover that $800 up front and $345 a month.
Titanic is still the highest-grossing movie of all time. It’s made nearly 2 billion dollar worldwide. If you look at the other movies in the top 10, they’re all part of series: LOTR, Spiderman, Pirates, Harry Potter, hell, they even made a bunch more Jurassic Park movies. But the thing is, Titantic is now 10
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Yeah. I love this thing. Honestly, there’s nothing so mind-numbing and sluggish-making than 8 hours at a desk. It’s completely contrary to how I’d like to spend my day, but here I am, writing all day at work, and coming home, briefly spending half an hour on the elliptical, and then… sitting down and writing
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But you’re going to read it anyway? Why, the internets have provided a solution! Just slap on one of these handy-dandy book jackets! They will make it look like you are reading something for OLD, AWESOME people!
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“So about a year later, when he came over to my house and uttered the simple phrase, “So. Wanna get married?” I was a little surprised, but it felt right and I said yes. We kissed goodbye and he left to go castrate some calves.” I swear, it’s like reading a novel about cow wrangling
Tim’s got a post up where he looks at the first lines of his novels, and it got me curious at to what all of mine looked like. No doubt there’s a hell of a lot of other huge differences between where I was when I wrote my first book and where I am now,
Oh, the joys of home ownership…. Yesterday, one of the big tree branches out front came down, so Steph and the Old Man bought a chain-saw-on a stick and Steph’s brother Josh came down for the day and made an afternoon of it. Josh is real excited by this manly stuff… But that chainsaw-on-a-stick is
Where’s the love, honestly? I remember seeing the preview for the Kirsten Dunst/Sophia Capploa production of Marie Antoinette and thinking it was a great concept. You’ve got that whole “royalty as rockstars” thing going on, with a modern soundtrack and a story of cloistered indulgence and opulance. Versailles is very much its own world, shuttered