(Fellowship of the Ring, image by Jerry Vanderstelt)

The frequent rain and unseasonably cool mornings and evenings have caused my internal calendar to go all wonky and now more than ever I am emotionally convinced that autumn has arrived. It doesn’t matter what my senses tell me, my heart has entered fall mode. I have had the hardest time over the last month not falling into full-on autumnal Lord of the Rings mode as well. While I have resisted actually watching the extended editions in their entirety, I have once again been sampling the extras, listening to Enya (her lovely melancholic voice will forever be associated with Lord of the Rings for me), and journeying around the internet searching for Lord of the Rings news and images to satisfy my yearnings.

I decided that if I was this miserable (I say, tongue firmly planted in cheek), then you ought to be as well. And though it is not yet November (my LOTR month), step into the future with me and take a look at some wonderful new Lord of the Rings treasures.

Continue reading “Don’t tempt me Frodo!” →

(photo by Obsessive Compulsive Photographer)

I am never one to shy away from telling a funny story, especially when I am the butt of the joke.

This time I mean that literally.

(Warning: This post is not for the faint of heart. Do not take with food or on a full stomach. Do not swim for at least 30 minutes after reading. And for gosh sakes don’t blame me…I did warn you after all!)

Continue reading Caught sh…er, sitting…. →

My friend Harry over at Temple Library Reviews has fairly recently begun a feature that he calls Reviewer Time. As Harry describes it: “You can review a whole lot of things with intellectual value, starting from books and then moving to all other forms of fiction, comic books, movies, albums and TV shows. But I have yet to encounter an extensive review of a review blog…”.

Over the course of this feature he has interviewed some top-notch blogs, including Fantasy Book Critic and A Dribble of Ink. This weekend Harry put some questions to me and my Reviewer Time interview is now up at his site, here.

It was a great honor to be chosen, especially among such great company, and it would make me very happy indeed if you would go over to Harry’s site and check out my interview. Please comment over there as well. And while you are visiting, look around. Harry has a pretty neat site.

Thanks Harry, it was a great deal of fun and I do appreciate the honor.

(Red Heart, image by Katarina)

“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.”
~C.S. Lewis

I arrived at work Thursday morning at 8 a.m., ready to face a fresh new day. This was an odd day compared to all those of the last two weeks in that I did not leave the building for any reason. No off-site meetings, no visiting of the many satellite locations that exist under my supervision. No stepping out to get a breath of fresh….humid…air.

I walked out of the building at around 4:45 p.m. and something very odd happened….

Continue reading Falling out of July →