Wedge Blog

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:34:47 +0000

If you’re an aspiring fiction writer, head on over to Hub Pages for the first of fourteen posts about the Crime Fiction Academy. http://baizblogger.hubpages.com/hub/For-Aspiring-Crime-Fiction-Writers-The-Scene-of-the-Crime-Fiction-Academy-Center-for-Fiction-NYC

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Katharine Hepburn!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:01:48 +0000

When I set the table for that woman in the mirror, she wasn’t the guest of honor. She was (gulp) somebody’s mother. My husband and I recently watched the 1965 classic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn/Sidney Poitier classic Guess Who’s Coming to … Continue reading →

My LRLL (Laundry Room Lending Library)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:12:11 +0000

Perhaps I’m reading too much into the Laundry Room Lending Library. If you live in a New York City co-op or condo, you might be lucky enough to have a collection of secondhand books sharing the basement with washers, dryers … Continue reading →

The Suspicious Women of 11 J

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:44:32 +0000

I’m back. I’ve returned to my New York City studio apartment after nearly three months ridin’ the jewelry John Deere. Yep, it was jewelry harvest season back home at Big Sky Gold. My finger (emptied of my five carat diamond, … Continue reading →

FlatBrain

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:30:04 +0000

Reference skills?  They’re dead. The desire to find anything beyond a couple of clicks?  If it doesn’t pop up on the first page of Google, Bing or Wikipedia, well, uh…never mind. I haven’t checked Facebook in the last few hours. … Continue reading →

Paper Presidents & Pundits

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:35:14 +0000

(Aired on KGPR, Montana Public Radio Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011) These are not easy times. You might have a buck or a five-spot. Maybe you’re totin’ around a ten, a few twenties, a fifty. If you’re flush, you might be … Continue reading →

A$$ in the Hole

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:43:32 +0000

Someone stop the Air Force, please. Cancel the four public meetings scheduled to take place this week throughout northcentral Montana. The Air Force, faced with fifty abandoned Minuteman nuclear missile silos, wants to implode the underground facilities or load them … Continue reading →

Trouble with a Holy Book

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:37:38 +0000

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:1-3) I don’t know why, but I’ve been pinging off another blog for a few days now. Walter Kirn, a fellow Montana resident and fine writer who recently lost his mother, … Continue reading →

The World (of Walter) at War

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:42:41 +0000

My friend, writer Walter Kirn, has been dealing with some tough issues, as you can see in his blog at www.http://walterkirn.blogspot.com/ Walter recently lost his mother and had a bout with a kidney stone. Here’s my reply to his recent … Continue reading →

Give Generously?

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:35:39 +0000

I remember when being a vegetarian in Montana was about as bad as being a communist at a Republican rally.  For my first couple of plant-eating decades, I understood I was fair game for all those pig, chicken, fish, and … Continue reading →

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