by Rhiannon Paine | Mar 22, 2017 | General, Signs of the Times
Dear NSA, GCHQ, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other government agencies and multinational corporations that are data-gathering and spying on us: Gosh, you must be tired! All those texts and email messages and tweets to read, phone calls to monitor, webcam...
by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 31, 2016 | General, Just for Fun, Signs of the Times
“Trump’s butler, reputedly one of the people closest to the business mogul (yes, a modern presidential candidate actually has a butler), posted Facebook rants urging the lynching of President Obama.” – from “Make America hate again” by Sasha Abramsky, New Statesman,...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 27, 2016 | Animal Crackers, General
Put brown rice on to cook. Start chopping onions for stir-fry. Sniffle. (Allergies.) Get tissue to blow nose. Ponder existence of friends who don’t keep a box of tissues in every room. Decide they must have superpowers undreamt of by mere mortals such as self....
by Rhiannon Paine | May 7, 2016 | General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun
Sometimes I read too many Golden Age mystery novels and start writing them myself. And whoops, I did it again! In Scotland. Setting: Hamish MacHaggis’s estate in Glencambell, in the Highlands. Occasion: a house party. Guests are Lord and Lady Scrymshawe, a...
by Rhiannon Paine | Oct 5, 2015 | Artists & the Arts, General, It's a Mystery, Just for Fun, Write On
When people ask about my “writing process,” I long to give them the kind of answers I’ve heard from other writers. Things like, “I rise before dawn, eat a slice of whole-wheat bread with organic fig jam, and write for two hours. Then I take up my duties as a...
