I've always known I had an unusual voice for a woman: a warm contralto that can do handsprings -- accents, dialects, character voices. Finally have a chance to make it WORK through ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange ( Read more... )

We are well, and have weathered Sandy unscathed. we are profoundly lucky. Check in when you can, please, so we can "count noses."

I do most of my posting on FB these days, but it's so tragically public that if I want to say anything that isn't relentlessly positive, it doesn't go up. And there is a touch of that in here. Let's see what's doing ( Read more... )

Apple has finally gone and pulled a Microsoft ( Read more... )

It's a sad, sad thing when you realize that your children are the feline version of Data and Lore...and you can guess which one is the Evil Brother: just look for the camera hog.

Well, this is "unofficial" in that the news was passed by my acupuncturist this morning who saw my file and I won't see the actual doctor until next week, but the eight vials of blood they took a few weeks ago show not much wrong, with the exception of cholesterol (we knew that) and apparently I have a wonky TSH. But the most important thing? ALL ( Read more... )

48 hours in Boston for a quick anniversary trip. Stayed in Cambridge -- which is most certainly NOT "my" Cambridge from 35+ years ago ( Read more... )

I have spent the last two very long days at the local Middle School, which is the shelter for Schoharie flood victims. It is beyond comprehension -- like Pompeii, much of what we knew as our beautiful "picture perfect Schoharie County" (the Chamber of Commerce's ad for years) is forever gone ( Read more... )

It seems only yesterday that we brought home this orange and white fluffball barely bigger than my hand. Now he's three -- my, how he's grown!

Happy birthday, beautiful boy! And don't let Oswald snitch your birthday salmon...


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Have to put one together THIS WEEK for the webinar I'm doing, need to use Google.docs, and am making no sense of it at all. If anyone has any skills in Google.docs presentation, and can give me a bit of live tutoring, I'd be much obliged and would probably come up with a tangible thank you upon negotiation.