Movie/Music Monday…Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)… I was really looking forward to catching this movie because I’d heart great things about it.  Alas “great” doesn’t describe this flick, at least for me.  “Meh” is more the watchword.  I enjoyed the “behind the scenes” politicking portrayed, and even the characters, but in the end, none [...]

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13 Things to do before Thanksgiving…

Yeah, that many.  I apologize if it’s all over the board, but this is my life.  Sigh.  Here we go!
1.  Buy turkey and all the fixin’s (on the slate for this weekend)
2.  Make sure there’s NO Airman on our base who’s going to sit in the dorms, or their own apartment on Thanksgiving.  That’s a totally unforgivable [...]

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Gotta love that editing…

So I’m taking a smidge of a break from writing over the next month or so, since I finished Into the Fire…and it was accepted gleefully *g*.  Now to see what the crit partners want me to change to make it even better!
Basically my goal is to work through a bunch of editing jobs between [...]

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TABT…Shadows All Around Her by Catherine Mulvany

 
When Caitlin O’Shaughnessy’s stepfather — world-renowned Medieval English professor Magnus Armstrong — is abducted in Scotland, she jets across the Atlantic to help find him. Her only clue: a teardrop-shaped charm on a broken chain left behind in the struggle. The authorities in Edinburgh are useless but Caitlin soon finds a partner in her desperate [...]

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Movie/Music Monday…60 Minutes interview with Barack Obama

I watched the Steve Kroft’s 60 Minutes interview with President-Elect Barack Obama last night and was struck by one very HUGE thing.  When Obama speaks, it’s thoughtful, not brash or full of false bravado.  He’s not using his pending office to give the American public a panacea or a message filled with false hope.  Rather, he’s [...]

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Thirteen books on my TBR shelf (November update)

Here’s the latest and greatest from my RWA stash and a few of the NRCA books from last year as well.  Between my physical stack of books and the ten or so I’ve got on my iPaq, I’ve only got 50 left to read…LOL!  And then there’s the other ten I’ve got set aside in [...]

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Typing “the end”…

Wooohooo!  Finished Into the Fire, which will be renamed with the help of my crit partners.  I sent it off to them last night, and hopefully they don’t find massive plot holes *g*.  Taking a few days to get some editing jobs under my belt, then I’m starting in again on revisions for Summerland and [...]

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A tribute to our veterans…

Today I thought a photo would suffice. 
This is First Sergeant Brad Kasel, being carried out of the “House From Hell” in Fallujah in 2006.  Note the sidearm still clasped in his hand.  He was shot seven times, and took 44 pieces of shrapnel after throwing himself over a wounded troop when an insurgent lobbed in [...]

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Movie/Music Monday…Indestructible, Disburbed

This is an album (yes, I know “album” is an archaic term…but let’s face it. I’m over forty, and that’s how we think) I wanted for Christmas.  I heard the title track, Indestructible, today as I was fixing dinner, and I don’t know if I can wait that long. 
 
I’m a serious Disturbed freak…I pretty much [...]

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Tour of the Hyundai plant

So I’m in Montgomery, Alabama this week undergoing training for the dreaded day job.  Basically we’re doing the Air Force’s equivalent of Six Sigma .  Part of that training was a tour of the Montgomery Hyundai plant.  What an amazing place!!  Total human/robot integration (noooo, I don’t mean cyborgs *g*).  Their assembly line is just [...]

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