Jane Haddam

I can’t excuse myself for not checking in yesterday by blaming it on the weather.  It was a nice enough day, but I got up at two thirty in the morning, and then I couldn’t get back to sleep. In other words, I was walking into walls. And this means I’m even more behind than…

Well, fortunately, it hasn’t been getting colder. It’s been getting warmer all day today, so that after something like five days I have actually been able to sit in this office and work at this computer. It’s not the coldest it’s ever been.  I can remember a time in around 2002 or so when it…

Subjunctive. Subjunctive. I knew I shouldn’t have been typing in the condition I was in yesterday. Of course, I’m in even worse condition today, because on top of being still sick I can’t seem to sleep. It’s three thirty in the morning.  I came wide awake around one after having gotten to sleep around ten…

So.  I had a mild cold about a week and a half ago, the kind of thing that sort of hangs on without being too much of a bother.  Then I started to feel a little better and there was something I needed to do, so I went and did it. And it washed me…

I had a sort of rocky start to the morning.  And that’s too bad, because it should have been a good one. We had a storm come through overnight.  It put what looks to be about six inches on the ground and pretty much closed this county, with the schools all out and the plows…

I’ve been looking at the comments this morning and wondering first and foremost if it’s REALLY necessary to go through all this again.  But it looks like I’m not going to be able to avoid it, so let me give it a shot. Nobody has so far hijacked the blog. Nobody needs to apologize to…

I was looking over the comments yesterday while I was reading and responding to a FB thread about whether curricular standards for publics schools ought to be imposed by the federal government on a “fact based” standard. I was, obviously, opposed to the centralized “fact based” standard, not for the least reason that a lot…

So, to start–I went through a certain amount of trouble yesterday NOT to mention any names in that story I told, since it appeared on FB in the context of a restricted audience.  So, cat out of the bag or not, I’m not going to mention any names here. But the answering to my question…

Okay, still mostly at the beginning of it.  I’ve been having a very strange week. My life tends to be very scheduled and repetitive.  It’s either that, or watching everything fall into chaos in no time flat. I wake up at 4:35 in the morning (long story), make a 60 ounce cup of tea with…

Once upon a time, I had this wonderful plan. I was a little behind.  First there were finals, then there were grades, and then, of course, I got my end of semester cold. I tend to get a cold at the beginning and the end of every semester, because students are predictable.  In the first…