Five Things You Should Never Do 1 – Put your fingers in an electrical socket. 2 – Pee in the pool. 3 – Drink pool water, because chlorine and see #2. 4 – Cry over spilled milk. 5 – Release a book over a holiday weekend, because, apparently, it takes quite some time for it…
“There was a song in my grandmother’s head I never heard her sing.” This is the first line of my upcoming novel, Club Storyville. For those of you who’ve read my other books, it may seem a bit of a departure. I have a love-hate relationship with first-person. On one hand, many of my favorite…
-OR- The One in Which the Subtext Can Be Boiled Down to a Single Twitterism Seeing as I watch Once Upon a Time for two reasons, there is nothing quite as painful in those opening moments than to hear that one of those reasons will be spending the duration of the episode apart, and the…
Here’s what I can say about Once Upon a Time‘s spring return. I know exactly why I watch this show, and so long as Lana Parrilla keeps having that ultra-shiny Regina hair, and Emma and Regina have their moments, I will continue to watch it. That said, I waited until Thursday of last week to watch…
I know, I know, award shows aren’t exactly the place to glean essential life lessons, but these aren’t exactly essential life lessons. They’re more like casual observations that have an element of something resembling something worth knowing. So, here they are. The ten things I learned from this years Oscars, in order of increasing importance,…
Gorgeous spring day. Santa Monica. A temperate 70 degrees. The sun warm, not hot. You spot an ice cream shop, and, though you weren’t thinking about it an instant before, it’s like a sign from the universe. There are a lot of things that could make this rare day of relaxation better, but, until you…