A Way With Words

Nonfiction writer Martha Barnette is the new co-host with Richard Lederer for A Way With Words, a weekly US public radio program on the English language. If it doesn't air in your area, listen to a live or delayed stream (broadband and Windows Media Player required) here (click on A Way With Words about halfway down). Barnette's website has some interesting links for word lovers and writers alike.

Odds & Ends

You have until 6 a.m. (PST) next Monday to enter the October Blogging for Books about a time you were pushed to the brink of insanity. Guest blogging at Writer's Edge is once again available by comment here or by email. I'm feeling very much in service mode, having just finished Memoir of a Geisha. [delicate feminine shudder shakes her shoulders]

Last night I indulged my German ancestry in a luscious dinner of pork steaks cooked over sauerkraut, served with hot sweet and sour potato salad. O.K., so I used canned potato salad for the first time in my life. I admit to being so desperate. I'd visited a nearby Octoberfest Sunday, only to find it a common arts and crap show instead. It was majorly disappointing! No Octoberfests again until I see Munich. Ach!

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