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I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe New Years. I’ll be celebrating by way of a quiet evening with my wife, watching tv and drinking sparkling grape juice.

Clarion is one of the most widely known and respected writing workshops in the country. Each year, they accept a handful of writers for six weeks of intense work. Someone once said that the “six weeks of Clarion are the literary equivalent of boot camp.” I would believe it, judging by […]

An American scholar, Michael Drout, was researching Anglo-Saxon scholarship and asked to see a copy of Tolkien’s lecture on Beowulf given in 1936. In the box of materials he was brought he discovered four bound volumes at the bottom of the box.
“I started looking through, and realised I had found an entire book of […]

Christmas last week, and new years this week. This weekend would have been a nice resting period, but we had one emergency come up and family came into town.
Saturday afternoon was spent driving around looking for an optometrist. Dena was cleaning her glasses friday night when the frames split down the […]

The time for making resolutions for the new year is almost at hand. I’ve been giving the act of making resolutions a lot of thought lately. It seems to me that people tend to make grandiose and unattainable goals for themselves, only to suffer disappointment at their failure to meet their objective. That’s not the […]