Dec 31, 2020 | Entertainment
As Tracey Hirt of Bored Panda points out, 2020 reads like a kindergartner’s first attempt at fiction: Um, so first an entire continent was on fire. But then there was this disease, and everyone forgot about that. So then the whole world had to stay home. And school...
Dec 31, 2019 | Entertainment
It’s tradition to take stock of the past year these days. While we need to avoid our species’ innate gloom, for most people I know it has been a seesaw of a year. Politics has rarely seemed more odious. Climate change is becoming a fact we simply have to...
Jan 1, 2019 | Entertainment
I wish you a very happy 2019! After all, it starts with a lunar eclipse on January 20th called the “Super Blood Wolf Moon,” so what can possibly go...
Dec 31, 2017 | Entertainment
I know I said I’d abstain from posting for a couple of weeks, but I found this lovely video and I had to share. As another year is upon us, I find myself pondering that classic wish, “Happy New Year.” It’s not years that are happy, though,...
Jan 1, 2017 | Events and Giveaways, Interviews Features and Reviews
Happy New Year everyone! And yet, while the champagne is still chilling, I can practically see many of you rolling your eyes and groaning. For many, 2016 was quite the disaster. What good can Brexit possibly bring in 2017? Or Trump, to be sworn in as POTUS in a mere...
Dec 31, 2015 | Events and Giveaways
Happy New Year to all of you wonderful people – or, as we used to say in Scotland, Happy Hogmanay. A big, big thank you for being part of my journey. May 2016 bring you nothing but joy. Oh, and if you’re wondering, Lang may yer lum reek is roughly...
Dec 31, 2014 | Random Musings
Thanks to a particularly ill-timed stomach bug, I’ve spent most of the holidays, including Christmas, enjoying Electra’s lovely soups. Which is how I found out that Christmas dinner is not the same when you’re in bed with a bowl of hot...
