Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman was announced on Monday as the 2009 winner of the prestigious John Newbery Medal for his novel “The Graveyard Book”, and it is a more than well-deserved award for the best-selling science fiction and fantasy writer. … Continue reading
Word came today that prolific American author John Updike had passed away this morning as a result of lung cancer at the age of 76 in a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. The first book of Updike’s … Continue reading
I thought it might be fun to review my blog statistics and see what the top posts were for 2008, in terms of page hits. In case you may have missed them or are a new reader, here are the … Continue reading
As it is wont to do, my mind was wandering the other day and it wandered upon this little question lying in the overgrown weeds and wildflowers growing next to the tracks of my train of thought; Which celebrity would … Continue reading
Tony Hillerman, acclaimed mystery novelist and creator of Navajo lead characters Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee as police detectives working in both the Anglo and Native American worlds to solve crimes, died of pulmonary failure in Albuquerque, NM yesterday at … Continue reading
Today I was composing my “Farewell” e-mail to send out to all my co-workers here in Louisiana on Thursday and I seriously thought about making the subject line read: “So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish” (as both an … Continue reading
Cindy and I were on the phone with each other 30 seconds before the big ball dropped in Times Square and counted down to the New Year. Kissing over the cell phone’s wireless signal is definitely not the same as … Continue reading
I read the sad news this morning that Madeleine L’Engle passed away Thursday in Connecticut at the age of 88. Ms. L’Engle was an accomplished writer of dozens of poems, plays and books, including her first best-selling children’s novel (and … Continue reading
