Jane Haddam

And it won’t, either, although this morning I’m in better shape than I was a few days ago. I have been thinking, over the last few days, about Michael’s article, the one from the NYT about how the Chinese are outpacing us, and also the slide show that he posted to go with it.  For…

So, to start off with, let me apologize for how sparsely the posts have been lately.  With a book deadline and the term just starting up, they would probably have been sparse-ish under anyway, but for the last eight days I’ve been down with The Cold To End All Colds. And, yes, for those of…

It’s almost 4:30 in the afternoon, and on most days I wouldn’t be here trying to write a blog post.  I get up very early in the morning.  On the best of days, my 4:30 is like your 9:30.  I’ve been up and running around for hours, done a full day’s work on both writing and…

Let me start out like this–it is always something of an omen (of what, I’m not sure) when Sunday morning starts out with Beethoven and not with Bach.  I’ve been sick as anything for two days–I’d LOVE to have a recording of how my class went on Friday; it’s a three hour, one day a…

So. It’s the beginning of a new term, with exactly one week gone, and I am where I always am–getting royally, throat-achingly sick.  The throat thing is, of course, soreness, which is how I always start getting sick.  My older son used to get strep every new term, and I’m just glad that hasn’t been…

Okay, I’ll admit it. I expected that last comment thread to go on much longer than it did, and to generate a lot more heat. But since it didn’t, I’d like to ask a question. If you read that article Michael Fisher posted–the one on working in the US and in China–what did you get…

I logged on to FB this morning to find that a number of people had posted links to this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9027846/The-rise-of-the-overclass.html It’s a review of Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 in a British newspaper called The Telegraph. Some of you may remember Charles Murray.  A few decades ago,…

From what I understand, something seems to have gone wrong with the blog site since the last time I posted, and several people found that there was no way to post comments to that last post. I assume this couldn’t have been a general problem with the site, since people continued to post comments to…

I know, I know.  I should have started this post earlier today, but I was too fascinated by the event playing out on my television set–a My Little Pony marathon, which is the way Greg wants to spend his birthday. If you’ve never seen this thing, all I can tell you is that it ought…

Well, what can I say?  The simplest explanation for why I’m writing this this early in the morning is that it’s that time of year again.  The new Gregor is due in about ten weeks, and I somehow have to cut most of the manuscript before St. Martin’s will be willing to publish it.  That’s…