Author: Anne Ursu

I have a bill in my email that I need to pay. It’s been sitting there for ten days. It’s not a big bill, and paying it will take me all of ten seconds. I’ll do it tomorrow.I left a shoe at the Quality Inn in...

I’ve been thinking about this issue of tense ever Liza posted last week. As Liza said, Philip Pullman’s–whose Golden Compass is a formative book for me–essay against the use of the present tense in the...

Happy National Punctuation Day, Inkpotters! This is a beautiful day. Punctuation is what separates us from the animals. Just try to get a monkey to use a hyphen correctly. Don’t even get me started on the semi-colons. Go...

I blogged about OK Go’s videos last February when I was in the midst of tax-induced despair. They released another one yesterday and watching it has proved able distraction from my book-induced despair.This is OK...

I’m sure readers of this blog are as sick of me complaining about my book as the people in my real life, though the blog people have the advantage of skimming. I am now two weeks late on my deadline. Rather appropriately,...