by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 22, 2010 | General, Once Upon a Time
As I noted in a guest post on Tammy Patrick’s excellent blog, Nurse’s Notes, I’ve been thinking about high school after a recent visit from one of my oldest friends. I wasn’t one of my high school’s cool kids. My hair insisted that it was Born Free...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 15, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, Just for Fun
Once upon a time, a writer wrote a book, as writers tend to do, and got it published, however unlikely that may seem. Then she sat back and waited for the good stuff that happens to writers who get published: trumpets sound, cherubs strew rose petals and...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 12, 2010 | General, Just for Fun, Signs of the Times
I got on Twitter because of Eddie Izzard’s feet. Allow me to ’splain, as Desi used to say to Lucy. As a member of C.L.A.M. — Chronic Late Adopters Mob — I had just discovered the actor/comedian when he started running 7 weeks of marathons around the UK for...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 3, 2010 | General, Just for Fun, Once Upon a Time
See those bridges? Somehow they’ve joined and slang is sneaking across them from the US to the UK. There used to be a divide between people who say “you guys” and people who don’t, and that divide was the Atlantic Ocean. When I was studying for an M.A. in...
by Rhiannon Paine | Jun 20, 2010 | General, Once Upon a Time
I’m not sure which Mom noticed first: my father’s crooked grin or the twinkle in his eye. Or was it his straight, aristocratic-looking nose, which he passed on to me? Not his actual nose. One that looks similar. And where did I get my obvious jokes? Read on....
