Joanna Bourne

On this lovely afternoon I've been thinking about immortality ... not so much as a personal preference, but the way it's presented i...

 It occurs to me that some folks have never seen carbon paper in action.  The first couple minutes of this program show somebody using it. ...

I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm a language fuddyduddy, clinging to past-pull-date English. Language is a living thing. I don...

 So. Here 's what we get up to in this neck of the woods. Happened a few weeks ago. "Investigators from the Sheriff’s Office proce...

photocredit: veronika_andrews  8-10-21    More and more hummingbirds are coming to sip my sugar water. More and more butterflies nestle in m...

Netflix is showing two Rurouni Kenshin flicks. The first, Ruroumi Kenshin: The Beginning , gives us interesting plotting, subtle acting, com...

Both these movies have multi-racial casts and pass the Bechdel test. For me, that's icing on the cake rather than a requirement. But — ...

I have a little machine called a Eufy that glides around my floors and picks up dog hair and cat hair from underneath the chairs and the bed...

An exciting weekend in which I set up my external hard drive. On a Mac this means buying a black plastic box the size of a good novel, fiddl...

I came across, "He’d lost an exponential amount of blood," in a book recently. The weakening of the word "exponential" f...

Jerusalema Haven't though about this one in a bit, but it cheered me up today. Lyrics in translation here . Jerusalem ...

I had a little problem with the comment aspect of my blog. I pursued research on the net. Then I did stuff that will probably make it worse....

I'm drinking a cup of coffee before dawn and listening to my recently-booted furnace wheeze into life.  When I get up in these transitio...

I spent today thinking about sacrifice and resolve. These are not among my strengths, unfortunately.   I have written characters who just bu...

Wikipedia says " The word biscotto, used in modern Italian to refer to a biscuit (or cookie) of any kind, originates from the medieva...

Today is one of the four cardinal points of the solar year. The Vernal Equinox .Night balances day. Darkness balances light. It's a good...

Me with my hair tied back, in the studio, consulting my lab notes, deciding how to glaze a cup Some of you folks may know, I throw p...

I was eating a kiwi fruit the other day. It showed up coyly snuggled next to a breakfast sandwich sold to me by the delightful ladies who r...

I did three interviews recently.  One at USA Today Happily Ever After ... http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/2017/08/15/keira...

A very happy plant A rainy Monday. It's one of those days when I don't know whether the rain is helping the farmers out or s...