Jane Haddam

I do think it’s interesting, the extent to which things I think are plain and obvious are really not–or at least are interpreted entirely differently by different people. By “voluntary poverty” I didn’t mean people who never hold a job or don’t get an education. I meant people like monks and nuns in monasteries, people…

I’m having a kind of odd day.  After a long time when I’ve had much too much to do, I suddenly have nothing at all to do, at least not on anybody else’s schedule but my own.  In general it’s nice to have days like this, but this particular day feels like a too-short breather…

So, things are actually fairly calm here this morning.  There’s been all kinds of weather lately, and then my mother has been ill.  It’s hard to know, at her age, what you’re looking at when people tell you that she has this infection or that.  Something that would mean not much of anything for me…

So,  here’s the thing. I’ve been trying to write this post for days, and for days I’ve been sort of drifting off away from it, as if my mind isn’t really on it. It was actually supposed to be somthing fairly fun–I was going to call it Hercule Poirot Saves The World from Fascism, Communism,…

I know, I know. I don’t post for days at a time, then it’s two or three in a single day. But Cathy F posted this link http://saundramitchell.com/blog/?p=4258 on FB, and it’s about books and money, and I wondered what people would think of it. I don’t know anything at all about illegal downloads, and…

It’s been an odd few days out here where I am.  We’ve been listening almost nonstop to weather reports threatening Armageddon, which means the grocery stores have been full of people fighting over the last bag of potato chips and loading up on things like sour cream and onion dip.  If World War III ever…

Okay–a reminder before I start.  If the site won’t let you post comments, e-mail us and we’ll get you in manually. That’s just in case. But–back to cases. I didn’t mean to imply, yesterday, that the problem that has arisen with the lack of an actual label for the kind of thing I do is…

Before I get started today, I want to point out that we just had another problem with the program refusing to let people sign on to post comments.  So, you know, if you have the problem, e-mail me, and we’ll register you manually. And, back to the blog– First, the Natalie Maines thing.   What Maines…

So, I’ve been thinking. One of the advantages–or drawbacks–about blogs like this is that they attract not just readers, but certain kinds of readers. And because that’s the case, and more importantly because it’s the case that things like this do not attract other kinds of readers,  it’s easy for this kind of reader to…

Okay. I’m going to try this for the second time today. With any luck it will work, instead of doing one of the seventeen million other things it’s been doing to me so far this morning. And I know that I’ve been a little spotty lately, and not exactly fixated on one subject for very…