Show & Tell Sunday: Halloween Treats

Show & Tell Sunday: Halloween Treats

Welcome back to Standard Time, and I hope you were able to enjoy that extra hour of sleep that mysteriously visited you last night! Did you do anything special for Halloween? Some of us dressed up at work on Friday. And on Saturday, many more people were dressed up at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo in downtown Los Angeles. Paul and I have gone to this event for the last few years, and it’s really growing– it occupied […]

Show and Tell Sunday: The Short Version

Show and Tell Sunday: The Short Version

I’m not doing all 31 days of #31bookpics and I’m a few days late getting started with it, so I’m taking this opportunity to do a little catching up! 1. Current Reads The Witches and Charned Particles sound like they could be related, don’t they? But they’re not. The “particles” referenced are quarks; one of the main characters in Chrissy Kolaya’s debut novel is a physicist. And we are fortunately mostly past attributing scientific wonders to witchcraft. That said, they do […]

Show and Tell Sunday, September 27

Show and Tell Sunday, September 27

My stepdaughter Kate celebrates her 21st birthday today, in remission from leukemia. Her dad made her a card. This week I did something I’ve never done in Los Angeles before–I rode the subway. (Did you know we have a subway?) I had a couple of meetings in another office, and found it much less stressful than driving–and figuring out the parking–there. This week’s reading has a couple of things in common with last week’s. The […]