Of the fourteen titles I chose for the 2014 TBR Pile Challenge (one book a month, plus two alternates), I read seven. The seven books remaining are still on my shelf and I do plan to read them, but not any time soon. While I enjoyed the idea of the challenge, in practice I foundContinueContinue reading “Reading Challenge Update (December)”
Category Archives: Rambles
Location: Imagination
I have a series of posts about Earthly locations that look quite alien. While the photographer responsible for the images I use may not have always been inspired by the same thoughts, I think there is something in all of us that responds to the “alien”. Not many of us get to travel, and soContinueContinue reading “Location: Imagination”
Tasting Single Malt
A Scotch tasting differs from a wine tasting in a few ways. Firstly, the hangover can be fierce. Yeah, I’m gonna lead with that because I might have written this blog post yesterday if I had actually had more than two brain cells to rub together. Not that I drank a lot, mind you, butContinueContinue reading “Tasting Single Malt”
The Lies My Mother Told Me
I’m not sure when I realised that holding an expression while the wind changed direction would not doom me to wear that twist of features forever. I was probably pretty young and I had probably disproven the theory, wittingly and unwittingly, several times. To this day, however, the sound of my mother’s voice wrapped aroundContinueContinue reading “The Lies My Mother Told Me”
Drowning in Books
Last year I wrote about my effort to reduce the number of books residing on my physical “To Be Read” shelf. The fact that I have to differentiate between a physical and virtual shelf only underscores my problem. Yes, it is a problem. I admitted that years ago and I’ve been making an effort toContinueContinue reading “Drowning in Books”
Kelly Jensen 