My movie buddy! Peg and I have seen a lot of movies together, good and bad — and have often argued about which was which (hee)! Peg is also a writer and academic as well as an amazing cook and baker (mmmm, deliciousness). I haven’t gone to the movies yet in Galway, surprisingly. The good…
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Know-vember: Debi
The lovely Debi, gardener supreme, patient woman, Albacon wrangler — romance fan! Here she is brunching with me at Café Madison. I miss meals together! Come to Ireland, all right? What’s the first thing you do upon waking in the morning? When I wake up first thing, I might pick up the book at my…
I Have the Most Amazing Friends
Well, you knew that, right? But they continually amaze me anew; I was flabbergasted today with this incredible treat. Thank you, Niamh! I am still speechless. Can you believe it? This cake shows the fae folk of Ireland welcoming me to a little cottage in Galway by the bay. And the pièce de résistance? Chocolate…
The Oxford Odyssey, Part 1
Arrived in Memphis Friday, spoiled by getting free wifi on both legs of my journey. Despite a nervous few minutes at Albany, I did get on the overbooked flight and got to Memphis ahead of a rather nasty storm, which we could see from the plane. Miss Wendy picked me up and we headed to…
Visiting the Vanderbilts
We headed over to the Vanderbilt place to check out how the other half lives (of course, at this point, it’s not so much the “other half” as the super-rich 1%), but first we stopped to fortify ourselves at the diner. I had a terrific burger cooked just the way I liked and everything was…
With my Brothers
Buck, the most good-natured dog in the world, supervises the process, while Robert makes the dough, Steve explains why rutabagas are always a bad idea and then the final product appears: mmmm, fresh pasties straight from the oven — yum!
Good Reads and Bad Food
I finally joined up with Goodreads. In addition to Library Thing, it’s one more place to help spread the word about my books and connect to readers and other writers. Do let me know if you have an account on either site. Last Monday I had lunch with Robert at the West Taghkanic Diner. He…
BitchBuzz: Movies without Women
My latest column for BitchBuzz is on a pet peeve I have: Movies without Women (or the dreaded Movie with One Woman). It’s an irritating popular trend in the last few decades that seems to have arisen from the focus-group approach to movie making (AKA micromanaging per the unconsidered comments of a bunch of random…
BitchBuzz: National Cupcake Week
My editor, whose Twitter handle is CupCate, of course made much of the fact that it’s National Cup Cake Week (at least in the UK) and asked us all to do what we could in that theme. Of course, I got a bit silly as I’m not much of a chef (okay, it’s true I…
K. A. Laity 