Archive > February 2006

Culinary Capers

That’s it.  I have tried to be a creative cook for the last time.  Well – I’m not sure if trying a new chicken seasoning packet counts as creative cooking.  I suppose I ought to say I have tried varying our menu for the last time.
McCormick Italian chicken seemed like such a good idea at [...]

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Bad news first, then the good

My neck hurts.  I’ve got a crick in it, which I can only assume means I slept in some strange angle.  Actually, the source of the pain is in my right shoulder, and seeing as I’ve got this tendency to sleep with my arms akimbo and slightly out-of-joint, I’d say it’s highly likely I woke [...]

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Thank God For Google

This week I devoted four solid days to writing a synopsis of The Collapse of Camelot.  You’d think that would mean I condensed, oh, 350 pages into 20, hitting all the high points of the plot and introducing all the important players, right?  Wrong.  It’s four pages.  Yes – I averaged a page a day [...]

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Divination and Arithmancy

“You will make many changes before you settle down happily.”
Sounds kind of like a fortune cookie, doesn’t it?  That’s because it is a fortune cookie.  Jeff’s fortune cookie.  Jeff’s Valentine’s Day fortune cookie.  Now tell me, could there be a worse fortune to get on Valentine’s Day?  Say you’re on your first date, and you [...]

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The Twenty-ninth Psalm

Maybe it’s because I’m still feeling rather overwhelmed at the enormity of having completed the second draft of my book and even more overwhelmed at the enormity of revising it,  but I really needed this Psalm today:

Ascribe to the Lord, O sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.  Give to [...]

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