This via Jennifer Fallon’s blog. Thanks Jenny! The Huffington Post features a book called “What We Could Have Done With the Money: 50 Ways to Spend the Trillion Dollars We’ve Spent on Iraq” by Rob Simpson. Simpson ‘calculates $1 trillion … Continue reading
Why do toilet doors always have gaps between the door and the wall? Why do Americans always burn their bacon to a crisp? Why, when the country is in a financial, military, environmental and health care mess, with educational standards … Continue reading
Most mornings we go for a walk. We drive to a park, leave the car by the side of the road and walk inside the park (mostly because there are no footpaths in our housing estate). This morning, during the … Continue reading
This photo says it all really. Study it carefully…I love San Francisco. … Continue reading
And this post is for those who believe that pictures tell it better than words… … Continue reading
I have read some very fine genre novels lately, all of them Book 1 in a longer trilogy or series. Take a look at the “books I have read” list on the left hand bottom sidebar. The authors include Joe … Continue reading
My website at www.glendalarke.com is having some problems.It will be back online soon… … Continue reading
Fantasy writing gets mocked a lot for sticking to certain tropes of the genre. You know: Dark Overlords, goat-herding boys who end up being the hero and so forth. There are lots of fun sites about it; see here and … Continue reading
Winter begins to close in on the north.And down here, in Malaysia, we know.We know because the birds start arriving… Saturday I was one of the presenters at a raptor identification workshop. What better than to spend a day in … Continue reading
…as we enter day 4 without water. Well, we did get a bit last night. In fact, quite a lot. Trouble was it was so brown it was opaque. Just the sort of thing you’d like to bathe in and … Continue reading
