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Romancelandia is in an uproar this week. Speaking as someone who has been living in that particular country for over ten years, uproar is nothing new. Uproar is out national pastime. It’s a baseball double-header, without the 7th inning stretches. All the freakin’ time. The Recap (which many of you don’t need): There are two […]

It’s Valentine’s Weekend, and I am a romance writer who loves to go to the movies. So of course, I am going to the release everyone’s been anticipating for months. KINGSMAN!!!! With Colin Firth, aka, Mr Darcy, aka the hottest man in the universe, forever, Amen. I have been panting like a dog for this […]

On the first day of Christmas my new cat gave to me Broken glass upon the kitchen floor. On the second day of Christmas my new cat gave to me A nibbled Christmas cactus, and broken glass upon the kitchen floor. On the third day of Christmas my new cat gave to me One kneecapped […]

In the last two years, there has been employee turnover at Casa de dos Quesos. Fierce mouser Mohawk and bad tempered heap of fur, Fluffer, lived out all of their nine lives and moved on to the next plain. Or heaven, according to Pope Francis. I hope heaven was ready for them. Nature abhors a […]

One of the advantages of train travel, (or disadvantages, if you are as antisocial as I am) is the chance to meet new people. It is not so much a chance, as an obligation. In the dining car they seat you wherever you fit. If you are traveling alone, you are guaranteed to be with […]