Contest: Win a role in my latest short story

Thanks for participating in the first ever Ask Libba event. That was fun, and you really put me through a workout. Whew. The polls are now closed and I have to stop taking questions for now. But I’ll do another one of those in a few months, because you might...

Stuffs and What-Nots

I have sufficiently recovered from Obama-Palooza to get back to bidness. Today is going to be a round-up day of stuffs and what-nots. (No, that is not a department store in England. But I feel it should be.) I will try to do this even though the cafe where I am...

Horses

Friday night, after the boy’s basketball game, we were walking in the Village on our way to get dinner. The boy was hungry and boisterous (and, like his mother, a bit unfocused) and he nearly ran headlong into this woman who dodged him at the last second. “Oh, I’m...

Have a Holly Jolly Creepy Doll-filled Christmas

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Wicked Winter Solstice! Kickin’ Kwanzaa! Happy Early Three Kings Day! Awesome Early Twelfth Night! (Did I cover them all?) I hope you are all cozy at home, listening to The Charlie Brown Christmas album, enjoying chocolates, and...

The Worst Make-Out Songs of All Time, Vol. 1

What makes or breaks a make-out song? What changes a melody from “Oh baby” to “You have got to be kidding me?” I pondered this quite a bit while doing intense research. Intense research mostly involved sitting on my couch eating Swedish Fish and trolling through my...