Jane Haddam

Yesterday, I did something I almost never do.  I accessed the blog page from my home computer.  I access the page I write on from home a lot, but I tend to look at the blog page itself on computers at school. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the type font was suddenly teeny-tiny…

Yesterday, in a fit of I-don’t-know-what–sloth, maybe, or a violent need for self flagellation–I sat down and watched The Movie for the first time in over a year. In a way, I suppose it’s odd that I can put it that way–that, considering the way I feel about this thing, I can write about the…

For a number of complicated reasons, including the fact that the state of Connecticut is insane on the subject of holidays, this is the start of a three day week-end for me–meaning not three days when I don’t have to work, but three days when I don’t have to drive people anywhere at insane hours. …

By now, you’ll have figured out that Anthony Daniels IS Theodore Dalrymple–rather, that “Theodore Dalrymple” is Daniels’s most commonly used pseudonym, taken up so that he could write about the world he was living in while he was still a doctor and at work. I don’t, however, read the “book review” in the same way…

Okay, three posts in one day is egregious, but I can’t help myself, and it’s my blog. This http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_otbie-john-kenneth-galbraith.html is Theodore Dalrymple on John Kenneth Galbraith–if the last one was him arguing in one direction, this is him arguing in the other. And the description of Galbraith as a person ought to make some of…

Okay, got to do it. I know, I know.   Two posts in one day. But this link goes to an essay by Theodore Dalrymple on Ayn Rand: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Ayn-Rand–engineer-of-souls-4385 and I’m dying to know what you think.

Ack. I know it’s hard to believe, but there are plenty of people out there who think that contemporary literary fiction has a lot to say. My numbers are, if anything, more flattering to genre novels than they should have been.  Go into any Barnes and Noble or Borders, and you’ll find lots of those…

As it turned out, the snow day was practically perfect–everything was cancelled before the day even started (we didn’t have to wait around wondering when administrations were going to cave in to the weather), and there was virtually no actual snow.  Well, there was snow all day, but that really fine stuff that doesn’t even…

I’m sitting here in my office, having a very odd morning.  The weather predictions are that we are about to see the biggest nor’easter of the season so far move through today, and the predictions have been so dire for so long that pretty much everybody in the state cancelled today as of yesterday evening. …

Sometimes it is difficult to deal with writing this blog in the mornings.  My computer at home is clunky, I still have a dial up connection here, and the blog site will do really odd things when it gets finicky. This morning has been one of those times.  If I’m low on patience, I blow…