So last night I settled in to watch the premier of The Vampire Diaries on CW. I had my tea at hand, Myra McEntire (who was lucky enough to see the pilot like 6 weeks ago) on GoogleTalk to compare notes and impressions, and my attention was rapt. For...

What a lovely thing to wake up to on a Monday morning.  Deniz Bevan from The Girdle of Melian has nominated me as one of five recipients of the Superior Scribbler Award!  Thanks Deniz! Of course it’s my turn to pass it along to others. Here are the...

Any of you who have been around here for a while know that I spent several years writing romantic suspense.  When I came back to writing seriously after grad school, it was a romantic suspense that I’d been toying with for years that I set about...

Because I am hard at work on this LAST LECTURE (all cheerleading is welcome), I have to share a video worth a lot of belly laughing. My husband has been saying since the first trailer came out that the wolves looked like Snufalufagus.  Damn that just...

As I have mentioned here before, I’m deep in the midst of prepping a Theories of Personality course for next semester.  I’ve been breaking my neck to get all the lectures written and the powerpoints mad, and I’ll continue to bust my butt in order to...

I absolutely LOVE this time of year when the annual results for the Darwin Awards come out.  Here are this year’s winner and honorable mentions: 1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Provo, Utah...