Can anyone recommend a VERY CHEAP small portable recorder good enough to take dictation from? I can write large with a soft pencil and slowly and with typos on this machine but one would be useful. Remember, VERY CHEAP (;-))
Category: Uncategorized
Tips from the Guardian
The Guardian recently printed a series of ten tips on writing each from a multitude of well- known writers. There must be hundreds, ranging from useful to witty to odd, and you should read them all for amusement if nothing else. Lib typed out a few I found useful below. Hilary MantelWrite a book you’d …
Letter to a young writer
I recently wrote the letter below to an incredibly talented but unhappy young writer who was doubting his abilities. It occurred to me that it had some general applications so I am reproducing it here, slightly modified: First of all, you are NOT a bad writer at all; you may be a brilliant one. What …
Inluential Books (and Writers)
Rod Dreher has a post on “Ten Most Influential Books. I responded after thinking hard and coming up with entries that surprised me a bit, in more or less chronological order: Kipling’s Jungle Books– first read to me by my mother– gave me a lifelong love of the underrated author, and England. Adventures of Sherlock …
Just a Pic
Our friend Nance McManus, artist, horsewoman, and bird trainer (see here ) took this photo of us a couple of weeks ago at the Albuquerque conference of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators, where I was featured speaker (Central Asian eagling and such). Just to show I am hardly at death’s door!
Pigeon Slander
Apparently there is to be a “reality” show about pigeon racing starring Mike Tyson. While he might not be the perfect spokesman I’d pick, the once- great Audubon Magazine sees this show as an opportunity to link the Horror of Tyson to the Horror of a sport of which the only characteristic is that some …
Some Links
Are Middle Eastern wolves the ancestors of domestic dogs? I would have to see a lot more, and wonder what Saivolainen, who suggests an eastern China origin, would say. More and more domestication sites seem to move east as we look there.And the most primitive dogs remaining (dingos, singing dogs) are SE Asian. They may …
Of Illness, Facebook, and a Dog: Announcements
First: readers have doubtless noticed a falling off in the number of posts this last six months, and in the number of adventures that leads to them. For all this time I have been having difficulty walking (which I initially put down to arthritis) and also sitting in the hard chair I had here. It …
The Answer to the Quote
Samuel Beckett, in “Molloy”. Which some of you Googled. Hey, that’s no fun!– wild guesses are a lot more entertaining than correct answers from any kind of “encyclopedia.”
Hunting Advice from an Unlikely Source
Tom McIntyre sent this quote. Who is it? Wild guesses encouraged, even necessary. I’ll give the answer later in the week. “…for sleep is a kind of protection, strange as it may seem. For sleep, if it excites the lust to capture, seems to appease the lust to kill, there and then and bloodily, any …