Jane Haddam

I keep telling myself that there has to be a reason–other than the bleeding obvious–that every time I try to click on the link in my bookmarks to access the add a new post section on the blog, I end up clicking on the one that says “Living in the moment on the Island of…

Every once in a while I get into one of those frustrating bottlenecks that make me despair of ever finding my way out, and that’s where I got to today with something called the Book A Day Challenge. I first saw the Book A Day Challenge because people were posting their answers to it on…

For the past week or so, I’ve been having this weird mental hitch where I think it’s later in the week than it is.  This morning, I thought it was Wednesday, which is a day on which I have to do a whole ton of stuff I’m not really prepared to do. I scuttled around…

Every once in a while, I have one of those days that seem to go wrong as a matter of principle. Not seriously wrong, you understand.  Days that go seriously wrong always feel to me as if they had solid rationales behind them:  the universe hates me, and it’s doing what it’s doing to me…

During the last 24 hours, posts appeared on both FB and Twitter that set my head spinning, and after having spent a night trying to figure out my response to the first one, and this morning being unable to shake free of the second, I thought I’d put my meanderings out here. The problem these…

I am having one of those weirdly amorphous days when things aren’t so much going wrong as just petering out. Work went, but that was about all you could say about it.  I tried four times to throw a girl in a white dress in front of a speeding green Chevy without actually killing her…

I was wandering around on City Journal this morning when I found this: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/when-automation-comes-for-the-professional-class/ It’s not anything that hasn’t been said on this blog before, or even anything I haven’t responded to before.  It’s distinct only that it comes from the American Conservative, while observations of this kind here tend to come from people on…

I have been in a very odd mood lately–odd enough so that, when I finished Real Work (meaning writing) this morning, I put on Beethoven’s 9th in the background. I am not usually a person who is interested in listening to Beethoven in the morning, and if I start writing at 4, eight o’clock is…

When I was growing up, my father used to say to me that if I couldn’t make my opponent’s argument as well as I could make my own, I didn’t know what I was talking about. This was just the kind of thing he would say that would drive me right out of my gourd,…

I’m still correcting papers like a maniac in an attempt to get all this done before my grades have to go in on Wednesday– But I’d like to point out a few things: 1) I made NO statement as to the truth or falsity of “climate change” science or the existence of nonexistence of a…