And Writing About Writing About Writing. I had probably smiled three times in the three years before that because life had been incredibly difficult. Now I was turning 40 and I was actually smiling because I was about to do something that my soul had been dying for.

Best First Mystery, and the Friends of American Writers award. The second novel in the series, LAKE OF SORROWS.

Stories, artifacts, wordplay, research, and musings on archaeology, writing, literature, Irish music and more. Thursday, January 14, 2016. Come to Ireland with me! Erin Hart and Celtic Journeys Present. The booking deadline is February 8, 2016.

I am an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Political Science at UCLA. I also study survey design methodologies, including a new survey sampling method that reduces reliance on post hoc weighting methods and alleviates non-response bias, and an automated raking methodology that selects the optimal auxiliary vector on wh.

Saturday, May 7, 2011. The algae growing on these steps had quite a variety of colors. It was quite unfortunate to find out that The Bridge of Sighs had been totally covered up by advertisements. St Marks Square was nothing like I had imagined. There were hardly any pigeons and the ads and scaffolding covered up a lot of the buildings.