by Risa Dickens
I’ve begun cutting pieces out of this early attempt at a novel to look at what the stories are and which ones matter to me. I have two very different feelings about the two main narrative trains, and at first I thought they would work well woven together. The darkness of Jane’s story […]

these are just a few exerpts from the tons of articles published daily describing different features of our crumbling and choking planet…
White House staff and the Energy Department, working closely with lobbyists for the same companies we had sued, directed EPA to expand loopholes that allow 40- or 50-year-old power plants to continue pumping […]

“To file a claim online at FEMA’s Individual Assistance Center, where citizens can apply for government help, the browser must be IE 6.0 or later with JavaScript enabled.
That cuts out everyone running Linux or the Mac operating systems, as well as Windows users running alternate browsers such as Firefox or Opera.”
Fema Site Blocks Access.
This […]

One forum I like and often check in on is the Iraqi Linux User Group, another is The Fashion Spot. One I post on a lot is the Publisher Database and another is Open Forums. All of these gather people from around the world in conversation and strategy sharing. These layers of dialogue are layers […]

After visting refugees staying at the Houston Astrodome, Barabra Bush had this to say:
“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckled slightly)–this is working very well for them.”

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054719
Finding out that their fellow Americans can be kind and generous must feel […]

In our house we’re really terribly good at living very well on not-much-dough-but-lots-of-debt. Often, i don’t even feel horrified by the house of cards thing we’ve got going. Montreal is like that, it’s beautiful here but for some reason it can be hard to make money. There’s isn’t the same commerce rush that NY has, […]