Lynne Simpson

If you don’t, the sheriff and her best deputy might have something to say about it. You can see by the grin and the gleam in her eye that she LOVES her new job. The little cute one in red is my sister, who had just turned three. I’m the goofy-looking one on the right. [...]

But apparently some folks in positions of authority are quite determined to ram their crackpot opinions down our throats. Why are these people so afraid of science? It's like a new wave of the Dark Ages or something. I don't often post about politics (unlike my much-esteemed better half), but gah! The idiocy of this [...]

Today, I realized how long it has been since I read a book I admired so much that I could unreservedly recommend it to anyone. The last such book was Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. Right after Gilead came out, we bought two copies for ourselves (one paper, another electronic) and one each for my mother and [...]

If you get BBC/BBC America, you have a nice surprise waiting for you on Christmas Day. They'll be showing the 1995 Persuasion with Ciarán Hinds at 12:30 pm Eastern. Of all the movie or miniseries versions of Persuasion, this one is by far the best, IMO. We watched it last week on the BBC and [...]

Rebecca de Courcy tagged me, and I'm just now getting around to posting my answers. Even though John and I are having a relatively quiet Christmas this year, November and December have been insane. I'm hoping for a breather in January. Four jobs I've had: (nothing too interesting here) Legal assistant Computer consultant Windows application [...]