Here’s a funny thing. A while back, Google decided that I was being talked about on the Internet sufficiently to receive utterly nonsensical Google Alerts. Most of these alerts are of incoherent listings with my first name and something completely random. But every once in a while, they are links…
I am floored by the difference between a well-conceived and brilliantly acted production of Carmen and one that isn’t. I thought that Bizet’s music and the tragic Carmen story had transcended La Scala’s miserable production that debuted last month. I didn’t like the production, but I enjoyed parts of it…
All across the country, this is the month people train and test or retrain and retest to become certified as volunteer income tax preparers. We work very hard. We don’t get paid, and we don’t accept tips. We do accept thanks. You will make our lives easier and get your…
It’s an upsetting experience to sort through and plan to dispose of a relative’s lifelong collection of books. Maybe it’s not upsetting at the moment of pulling the books off the shelves. I certainly kept my cool last night when I was going through my mother’s extremely extensive collection of…
I’ve changed the comments to appear when you make them–unless you talk dirty, in which case they get held for approval. Or disapproval. Or whatever.
You’ll notice that I have posted an article on writing. I wrote a dozen or so in the last few years. Many have been published in various Romance Writers of America (RWA) newsletters. Now I’m making them available to the rest of the world, albeit polished up a bit. Don’t…
Why this blog
Poison Ivy was a punny nickname editor Julius (Julie) Schwartz gave me because I had some caustic things to say about certain comics. My initials being I and V make my poison pen letters into Poison Ivy. I’ve been posting regularly for several years on the blog at www.myromancestory.com as…
