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- March 2010 (1)
- 09: digital cleanse (4)
- February 2010 (2)
- 18: on education and elitism (0)
- 17: the modern relationship (3)
- January 2010 (5)
- 29: ipad-motivated thoughts on publishing (3)
- 26: the measure of a man… (0)
- 21: writing by the rules (4)
- 19: the magic in writing (4)
- 07: interview: paranormal romance author jill myles (14)
- December 2009 (3)
- 28: that time of year, 2009 edition (1)
- 12: adventures in airports (4)
- 11: hug your agent (if she’s into that) (1)
- November 2009 (5)
- 20: so who’re your influences (redux) (3)
- 17: the learning curve (1)
- 11: ‘congratulating the present’ (3)
- 09: in defence of writers (8)
- 02: the virgin queen’s women (1)
- October 2009 (4)
- 20: on universities, tenure, and writing (4)
- 16: blocked (5)
- 10: drawing a line for historical fiction (4)
- 01: too much of a good thing (2)
- September 2009 (5)
- 29: moving, and the best historical fiction (2)
- 09: chronic misanthropy (3)
- 07: on women’s parts (12)
- 02: links for writing and reading (0)
- 01: the matter of detail (11)
- August 2009 (2)
- 27: on regret (5)
- 08: first person (2)
- July 2009 (3)
- 28: teaser tuesday (12)
- 21: teaser tuesday (9)
- 17: cornucopia: material goods, june’s disappearance, and the death of social media (1)
- June 2009 (2)
- May 2009 (6)
- 23: the auction block (2)
- 19: teaser tuesday: a castle in putney (11)
- 17: storytelling (1)
- 17: time capsule: querying (2)
- 12: teaser tuesday (7)
- 05: teaser tuesday (15)
- April 2009 (5)
- 28: too old for pop (0)
- 22: home (1)
- 10: friday five (1)
- 08: jack’s 50th birthday (0)
- 07: teaser tuesday (15)
- March 2009 (1)
- 19: winter (0)
- February 2009 (2)
- 10: staccato (3)
- 03: the linear life (1)
- January 2009 (5)
- 31: the joys of mediocrity (9)
- 21: these days (1)
- 13: tuesday admission: ignoble (4)
- 10: tag (5)
- 05: the muse at your shoulder (4)
- December 2008 (3)
- 23: that time of year (4)
- 14: belonging (2)
- 03: corners (3)
- November 2008 (8)
- 30: emancipation is messy (2)
- 26: the science of the all-nighter (1)
- 25: a distraction: five things (0)
- 21: tenure (2)
- 17: language (2)
- 12: a heroine (10)
- 09: history for art’s sake (3)
- 06: the 24-hour clock (5)
- October 2008 (3)
- 19: sunday nights (1)
- 15: scattered (0)
- 08: victory (2)
- September 2008 (1)
- 26: on sarah palin (4)
- July 2008 (1)
- 15: back to minutia (1)
- March 2008 (5)
- 19: at the altar of san fernando (1)
- 18: on arrogance (0)
- 11: you are in the right place (3)
- 10: i’ll stand before the lord of song (5)
- 02: good grief (0)
- February 2008 (5)
- 29: a mess, all right, but no messiah (1)
- 27: no service (0)
- 17: found wanting (0)
- 11: on this spot (0)
- 04: in memoriam (0)
- January 2008 (1)
- 28: the office vs. the office (0)
- December 2007 (3)
- 18: eta (0)
- 17: on fanfiction (1)
- 09: the end of the year (0)
- November 2007 (2)
- 27: the fleets meet - now in technicolor (1)
- 19: gone quiet (0)
- October 2007 (1)
- 02: losing heroes (0)
- September 2007 (3)
- 24: o, canada (0)
- 04: the wars you bring, the babes you drown (0)
- 02: losses (0)
- August 2007 (6)
- 31: reason for hope, ten years later (0)
- 30: word search (0)
- 24: i made you a mix tape (0)
- 14: venez m’aider (0)
- 10: vivat camilla (0)
- 02: two in the morning, beginning of august (0)
- July 2007 (2)
- 29: mutiny (0)
- 06: and botulism is called steak and kidney pie (0)
- June 2007 (1)
- 21: …and a sixpence for your shoe (0)
- May 2007 (2)
- 25: the county teat (0)
- 05: wandering beyond interior walls (0)
- April 2007 (7)
- 23: my visual dna (0)
- 19: game, set: murphy (0)
- 16: concatenation (0)
- 14: i am sam … the record man (0)
- 10: braindeath: dvd region fascism (0)
- 08: atrophied daydreams (0)
- 03: stand up straight, take two (0)
- March 2007 (11)
- 31: honesty (0)
- 30: conclusion based on question about donuts (0)
- 29: oral examination (0)
- 26: the facebook post (0)
- 25: dull as plainsong (0)
- 23: twice my age (0)
- 23: miscellanea (0)
- 22: sleep deficit/defying sleep (0)
- 20: the beating of its wings (0)
- 17: a bite at fry, a bit of laurie (0)
- 07: evaporation (0)
- February 2007 (1)
- 19: hibernation (0)
- August 2006 (1)
- 07: i remember california (0)
- July 2006 (6)
- 27: a smoker’s diary: purgatory (0)
- 21: thought for the day (0)
- 17: a smoker’s diary: a million years (0)
- 14: back to form (0)
- 12: bikram update (0)
- 02: awwww (0)
- June 2006 (11)
- 30: in which vomit is gratitude (0)
- 27: fuck (0)
- 23: SNAP! (0)
- 21: a smoker’s diary, part XI: 35 days; 863 hours; 0 cups; 3,475,843 tears (0)
- 14: GO TIME (0)
- 13: a smoker’s diary, part X: busted (0)
- 13: a smoker’s diary, part IX: 28 days; 689 hours (0)
- 12: a smoker’s post-it: 27 days; 651 hours (0)
- 08: a smoker’s diary, part VII: day 25; 594 hours (0)
- 06: a smoker’s interlude: at 548 hours (1)
- 02: a smoker’s diary VI: at 456 hours, or 19 days (2)
- May 2006 (5)
- 21: a smoker’s diary, part V: at 159 hours (1)
- 20: a smoker’s diary, part IV: at 130 hours (0)
- 18: a smoker’s diary, part III: 89 hours (0)
- 17: a smoker’s diary, part II: at 48 hours (2)
- 08: a smoker’s diary, part I (6)
- March 2006 (3)
- 27: drugs, at rest, in motion (3)
- 15: miracles (2)
- 06: sowing the seeds of debt (1)
- February 2006 (2)
- 27: this highway (1)
- 14: the mosquito and the bumblebee (1)
- January 2006 (2)
- 01: sank beneath your wisdom (2)
- 01: thought for the day (0)
- December 2005 (4)
- 21: a paper diary (2)
- 15: 2005 in capsule (0)
- 15: universal tired time (2)
- 04: modus vivendi (3)
- October 2005 (1)
- 16: omnibus (12)
- August 2005 (2)
- 26: important update (4)
- 07: very, very boring (1)
- July 2005 (7)
- 28: blurb (2)
- 24: i give up (3)
- 21: rowlin’ rowlin’ rowlin’ (2)
- 21: hell is other people (3)
- 20: resolution (1)
- 14: ring for jeeves! (1)
- 03: 40 questions (1)
- June 2005 (9)
- 30: what?? (9)
- 30: amalgam (3)
- 24: (0)
- 23: philip larkin knows (2)
- 23: food, sex & distance: an internal debate (8)
- 21: wedding fells 40 (3)
- 15: tagged (2)
- 10: antithesis (1)
- 01: free-floating (2)
- May 2005 (1)
- 31: on my to-do list: (4)
- April 2005 (3)
- 16: steeping items (5)
- 04: adventures in babystopping (1)
- 01: caesar’s no more (4)
- March 2005 (5)
- 26: a compact chronology (12)
- 15: a secret (2)
- 14: random/staccato (0)
- 05: post-degree, pre-parent (0)
- 04: out of my hidey-hole (1)
- February 2005 (1)
- 10: two good things (0)
- January 2005 (3)
- 31: indignatio principis mors est (3)
- 23: my sunday shitlist (0)
- 22: movies of myself (1)
- December 2004 (3)
- November 2004 (2)
- 28: metastasis (1)
- 26: after a while you stop missing her - or do you? (3)
- October 2004 (5)
- 26: (8)
- 24: how shymaking (1)
- 06: french sarahs have more fun (2)
- 06: only slightly, only slightly less than I used to (2)
- 05: the only poem I’ve ever written (0)
- September 2004 (2)
- 25: so who’re your influences? (1)
- 04: what I did on my summer ten-minute break (1)
- August 2004 (6)
- 23: (2)
- 12: thought for the day (0)
- 10: another summer, another folkfest far from my home (0)
- 03: so I guess I’m a… (0)
- 03: thought for the day (0)
- 01: because you guys are insatiable (8)
- July 2004 (11)
- 29: sorry, but I’ve got a lot of work to do around the bed (13)
- 29: 100 things: the eighth ten (0)
- 29: 100 things: the seventh ten (0)
- 29: 100 things: the sixth ten (0)
- 29: 100 things: the fifth ten (0)
- 28: 100 things: the fourth ten (1)
- 28: well, there it went (0)
- 28: 100 things: the third ten (0)
- 28: 100 things: the second ten (3)
- 28: 100 things: the first ten (0)
- 08: nothing in my history with myself led me to believe I’d be described thus: (1)
- June 2004 (4)
- 30: operation save the kitties (1)
- 09: yes, finally (0)
- 08: thought (0)
- 08: the workplace goes amish, & other stories (0)
- May 2004 (2)
- 25: i still can’t find it… (0)
- 06: yeah, yeah (0)
- April 2004 (11)
- 27: feedback & a confession (0)
- 26: grumble (0)
- 26: captive on a carousel (0)
- 23: um, and some reminiscences (0)
- 22: thought for the hour (0)
- 22: my life in clip art (0)
- 13: i say good day to you, sir! (0)
- 13: tunnel vision (0)
- 08: staccato (0)
- 06: thought for the day (0)
- 01: odds & ends with what’s sure to be an odd end (0)
- March 2004 (8)
- 30: heh (0)
- 29: the medusa’s head, or why carb talk turns me to stone - and makes me order a pizza (0)
- 26: quarter-life crisis (0)
- 25: her blood is up (0)
- 24: curiouser and curiouser (0)
- 23: another life in art (0)
- 22: can’t run, but i can walk much faster than this (0)
- 10: wha-at? (0)
- February 2004 (4)
- 09: thought for the day (0)
- 09: measure for measure (1)
- 05: 43% (0)
- 04: all-call to elizabeth pundits (0)
- January 2004 (11)
- 31: subject: insomnia (0)
- 31: subject: bleatings from amsterdam (0)
- 29: what it feels like (0)
- 27: belting chastity (0)
- 25: too young to retire (0)
- 22: castaway (0)
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- December 2003 (5)
- July 2003 (2)
- May 2003 (3)
- April 2003 (8)
- March 2003 (30)
- February 2003 (8)
- January 2003 (23)
- December 2002 (40)
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- November 2002 (2)
