• Illustration Friday: INSECT
    June Bug When I was a kid we used to catch june bugs in the summertime. We would carefully tie a string to one leg of these insects and let...
  • Baby It's Cold Outside
    It's a slow week here for me in the blogger world. I have been at a total loss for inspiration (and remain so this morning). I have bee...
  • A Personal History (abridged)
    Updated from the 2005 original It was one of those cold, lazy weekends when I meant to do everything but ended up doing nothing. Yard work w...

A Bad Review Is Better than No Review

A quick thought about book reviews (especially the bad ones)… I’ve been looking over the numbers on my own books lately, and they tell an in...