By God I took on the challenge of writing a novel (or 50K words) this month, and I did it. Go me! Just goes to show if you plow ahead and totally ignore your inner editor, and give your characters long complicated names,and go into slavish detail about the littlest things, you too can finish a book in this short space of time. It also helps to ( Read more... )

In a sweet bit of irony, I found myself reading Stephen King's 'The Stand' at the around the same time Roger Federer was battling for his Wimbledon title. The folks in the story, survivors of the 'virus' had to make their stand against a great evil plotting to overthrow them. It was all on the line...just like Roger's title defence. They couldn't ( Read more... )

An interesting fact emerged about Heath after his death. He was a bit of a chess player. Was the West-Australian junior champion in fact, and in the last few years would wander around Washington Square, New York, and pick up games from the local colour. Five dollars a pop and running trash commentary....Heath would win some and lose a few more. He ( Read more... )

Bob Dylan -

Mama, take this badge off of me
I can't use it anymore.
It's gettin' dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door

Rest in Peace, Heath.....

So I was reading this post on personal space invaders. This guy had another guy come up to him, compliment his tie, then go to touch his tie and voila, line is crossed. People had lots of opinions on this, including this one ( Read more... )

Okay. It's been awhile since I updated. But , hey, maybe I'm just a blank white board some of the time. That's not an unpleasant thing to be. It's just blank and white. Anyway, I have been contemplating some things. Like my mom's assertion that one of her boot heels is higher than the other. I didn't think that could be. Afterall, these boot ( Read more... )

And there we have it. Grandslam number 9, and Federer stands alone at 6th on the all-time grandslam list. Not bad for a guy just turned 25. And the sneaking suspicion is, he really could be the greatest of all time. Of course the irony is I still can't watch him play live. I get too darn nervous. So while all this greatness is unfolding before our ( Read more... )

08/08/06 means only one thing. Roger's birthday of course. And a nicely wrapped present in a win over Matthieu . Of course, just because I live in Canada doesn't mean I can watch the Number One player in the world actually play live at a Canadian event. No sir ree, gotta put the Blue Jays on during that time slot, so I'm nursing a cranwater til ( Read more... )

Since I promised my friend I’d write something this weekend, I thought I’d do one of my rare and wondrous updates of this blog. So what’s on my mind? The ebb and flow of fame and fortune. Case in point: Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal. Roger, for those who don’t follow tennis, is the number one player in the world, and is presented in the press as ( Read more... )

Blood on the red carpet ( Read more... )