Thursday, November 12, 2009

Mix and Match

What I'm Reading:

Same as last week. I hated to leave Matt Hilton's Dead Men's Dust at home but it's a hardcover and we were traveling light. Can't wait to get back to it. Have also not finished the two non-fiction books on writing. I suspect I won't finish any of these books until next week because I'll be at a writing retreat Friday afternoon until Sunday afternoon (more about that tomorrow), and I also have a critique to do for my writer's group Monday evening.

Note to self and to blog/Twitter/Facebook/e-mail friends: The retreat is only for working on the novel. I will not, repeat not, be online between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon.


What I'm Thinking About:

Getting this post finished so I can go to bed. Tomorrow is another travel day and we need to get up very early. And I don't go anywhere until I've had my coffee.


This Week's Quote:

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
-------------------John Steinbeck (from brainyquotes.com)


A Recommended Blog:

mnmlist.com A blog about minimalism

I enjoyed the post called: Learn to love less


The Best Thing I Had to Eat This Week:

My daughter makes a simmered mixture of chickpeas, tomatoes, onions, garlic, and maybe some ingredients I don't remember at the moment (Herbes de Provence?) and then serves it over pasta (or sometimes rice). Delicious topped with fresh shaved Parmesan.

8 comments:

Mason Canyon said...

The dish sounds good. Have a safe trip home.

Terry Odell said...

We're having a cool enough morning to think about cooking. That dish sounds yummy.

Elizabeth Spann Craig said...

Oh my goodness....a blog that's even blanker than MY blog! Didn't know one existed. :) It looks like a cool site, though--thanks, Patricia.

Elizabeth
Mystery Writing is Murder

The Old Silly said...

Nice potpouri post. That simmered dish sounds wonderful, GREAT quote (gonna tweet that one), and have a happy travelling day!

Marvin D Wilson

Elspeth Futcher said...

Right now a writing retreat with no online activity is what I really need! Hope it's productive for you.

Elspeth

Paul D Brazill said...

Oh, that chickpea meal sounds great.

Anonymous said...

I'm hungry now. Enjoy the retreat. Here's hoping you write a lot.

Patricia Stoltey said...

Thanks to everyone who stopped in today while I was trying to grab another one of those flying naps. Didn't work so well this time. After I did the head-bobbing thing enough times to give myself whiplash, I read more in the book about writing killer historical mysteries to get myself in the mood (even though the book I'm writing is not a historical -- hysterical, maybe...).