Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Amazing Tricks of the Human Mind

Her hands are her craft, her babes are her art
A year and a year and a year more she stays
A rock, a cold rock, in her heart. Continue reading

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Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien

Let me be the first to wish all of you, anxiously waiting for the release of the coming Hobbit film (part 1) a very happy remembrance of Tolkien’s birthday! Happy Birthday J.R.R.! …the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, … Continue reading

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The View From Here

Not really interested in the practical. It looked very mysterious. Continue reading

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The New Year Begins

What was I putting off? The very thing I had been so anxiously looking forward to. Cracking the seal on the printed copy of my NaNoWriMo first draft. What was up with that? Continue reading

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The year ahead

As I opened up this orange I thought: why don’t I eat oranges more often? They’ve such a wonderful smell as you peel them! This one’s going to be so juicy and sweet! But then I thought, if I ate … Continue reading

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