I have spent considerable time over the last few weeks trying to make up my mind whether to restart this blog. I finally decided that I would restart it, but that I wouldn’t advertise the restart. If you’re one of those people who check this space  periodically to see if I’ve  decided to say something,…

This is the latest project: https://www.gofundme.com/a-mystery-writers-experiment Now as to Facebook, I have an official Facebook page! Finally! It’s over here at https://www.facebook.com/Jane-Haddam-316337472104866/

This is an experiment, and only for Kindle. A new series, female sleuth, cozy but not twee, and it’s got a dog! I really wanna hear what you think of it.

It’s Monday, and I’m sitting in the office eating yogurt and otherwise doing nothing, since I’ve already taken care of all of my actual work, but it’s office hours, so… Anyway, the title of this post is the title of a book by Mark Zubro. If you’re reading me on FB as well as here,…

It’s halfway through the term, and students are now comfortable enough with each other and with me that they’ve started doing something I never know how to handle–they’ve started giving out personal (sometimes VERY personal) information about themselves. The most common personal revelation by far concerns kids coming out to the class as gay.  This…

I’m coming off a week-end of sheer outraged piss off, which is not really normal for me most of the time, and probably isn’t good for me. The occasion was the absolute deluge of FB posts about the new Religious Freedom Restoration Act passed in Indiana.  By and large, these posts were by people who…

This is what happened:  I am working on fiction, at the moment, and because of that I am trying to read only fiction, because that sometimes helps.  Other times, not so much.  But you see what I mean. What got me started thinking about rereading The Fountainhead was something unrelated to either Rand or the…

It’s been so long since I logged on to this blog, I thought I’d forgotten the password.  But I hadn’t, which is interesting, since I’m constantly losing the ones for my bank account and that kind of thing, and especially for school.  On the other hand, the blog doesn’t make me change the password every…

So, it’s Sunday, and because it’s Sunday, I’m spending my morning trying very hard not to think of anything serious, and failing. I’ve got The Well-Tempered Clavier, performed by Gustav Leonhardt, playing in the background, and Thomas Aquinas talking about Aristotle waiting on the loveseat, and I just–I don’t know. Let me start by saying…

At the moment, I’m sitting in this office desperately attempting to put the finishing touches on this final exam, so the students can read it beforehand, which they won’t do, even though they all say they want an A. In the meantime, though, I’ve been watching the whole rape allegations mess, and it has been…