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With the longer winter nights this should present hours of extra reading time for me correct? Wrong! Last week was busy and my powerful powers of procrastination, a forgotten book that needed to be reviewed as well as general malaise finds me reading the same books this week. In the car I am still listening to Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman….

Is the Pen Mightier than the Keyboard?

When you are writing, do you prefer to use a pen or a computer? r’s note: this was the writing prompt from BlogHer for NaBloPoMo but I liked it so much that I decided to answer. So. Way back before every phone was a PC there was a little something called a typewriter. Yup, load the paper, make your margins…

Friday Favorites: The Games We Play at Work

My Pinterest obsession continues to grow and it, along with my spunky new co-worker, have seemed to unleash a perfect storm of ideas. Next week I am doing a game week at work and I have been toying around with ideas for games for a while. I hadn’t acted upon them before now; I tend approach things with either great…

Between the Covers: Theodora

Reading Stella Duffy’s Theodora Actress, Empress, Whore I couldn’t help but think of modern day women who do what they need to do in order to survive. Like Madonna. While I don’t mean to call Madonna a whore, Madonna resembles Theodora as a person who was, is, so skilled at transforming herself that she is still relevant decades after all…

PYHO: All You Need is Love

Love…love…love…Now I’ve got that Beatles song stuck in my head. Anywho, the L word is bandied about like nobody’s business…I love pizza!I looooove me some Simon Pegg!I love my new co-worker! (she has assisted in helping me find my work mojo)But really, what does Love mean and how has such a powerful word been demoted to being an adjective for…