Hello, Monday!
1. October in Indiana is beautiful! The leaves are turning gold and red, and the weather is cooler (especially the evenings). Fall has always been my favorite season, although autumn in San Diego wasn’t much different than summer, spring and winter in San Diego. So now that I can experience a real fall season, I’m in heaven and enjoying every moment of it.
2. In case you missed my post on Friday, I reviewed a great writing book called Author in Progress by the writers at Writer Unboxed, one of my favorite websites. Writer Unboxed always has thought-provoking articles about the process of writing. For example, this article on why books written by women get such audience-limiting covers was fascinating and full of truth.
3. Speaking of book covers, you have to read this interview with a creative director for Penguin Classics. I had no idea how much goes into designing book covers. Fascinating stuff, including his favorite (and least favorite) book covers.
4. Loved this article about a blogger who ate all the pumpkin spice items in the grocery store, and then ranked them all. My pumpkin spice sampling has seriously lacked this season. Mainly because I haven’t been able to get my pumpkin fix since I’m over an hour away from the closest Trader Joe’s. That’s the one thing I miss about San Diego (no Trader Joe’s close by). But I did finish off a box of the pumpkin spice Cheerios and they were quite tasty.
5. Speaking of fall, remember when September meant all the television shows returned and new series premiered? I guess that’s still the case, although now there are so many great programs on cable during the year it doesn’t feel as exciting. We just finished watching “11-22-63″ on Hulu. I’m not a big fan of science fiction or fantasy, but I really liked this miniseries. I also binge-watched the first three seasons of “Rectify” — good, but not my favorite. The big surprise was “This is Us,” a new drama on NBC that I fully expected to hate because I thought it was trying to be the next “Parenthood.” But I ended up really liking it!
6. Finally, 2001 doesn’t seem that long ago … until you read these 17 things we were doing on our computers in 2001. I’d forgotten about Clippy the Paperclip in Microsoft Word, LiveJournal and waiting for videos to buffer. Ahh, so much progress in 15 years!
What’s going on in your life? What are you thinking about this Monday in October?
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