Category Archives: Musings

What Is Easter About?

Posted on April 7, 2024 by Sarah Beach

So, on Easter Sunday afternoon, while surfing through YouTube, I happened on a MSNBC segment (I’m not sure which show) where the three people on camera were discussing some of the implications of Donald Trump hawking Bibles (over-priced ones, at … Continue reading →

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Life Lessons Learned from Chef Gordon Ramsay

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Sarah Beach

During my time in Oregon, I got into watching a lot of Gordon Ramsay’s shows on Hulu (Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen, Master Chef, even the British version of The F Word (“F” meaning “food,” in case you didn’t know)). Hulu … Continue reading →

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Inspiration for Scholarship

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Sarah Beach

Lately, I’ve been mostly focused working on client editing or on various writing projects either for a client, or my novel Godiva (which you can read in-progress if you become a patron of me on Patreon). It’s been a few years … Continue reading →

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Keats and Ben Nevis

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Sarah Beach

Along the way in my education, I gained an affection for the poetry of Keats. Something about how he handled the language spoke to me. When I was in graduate school, I took a course on the Romantic Poets of … Continue reading →

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Rewriting Shakespeare

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Sarah Beach

In 2011 I wrote some verses in response to a review of Orson Scott Card’s book Hamlet’s Father. Card’s revisionist presentation of the Prince of Denmark isn’t quite the traditional sort of Bowdlerization that takes out “offensive” material. In many ways, Card’s … Continue reading →

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About Research – Who Knows What?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Sarah Beach

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) I started reading a new fantasy this week and within a couple of pages found myself being irritated. Please don’t take what follows as a review of the whole, because it is not. I mean to … Continue reading →

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Tolkien Snobbery

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Sarah Beach

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) I was roaming around a social website this last week, one that services writers, and was looking at one writer’s profile. Under the heading “Favorite Books” she began with “Tolkien’s Trilogy” — and then the rest … Continue reading →

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A New Style of Advertising?

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Sarah Beach

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) There’s a State Farm Insurance commercial currently playing that caught my attention. The spokesman starts talking about the company and how approachable its representatives are. He begins his speech on the sidewalk outside a cafe that … Continue reading →

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I’m Entitled to Have You Read My Manuscript!

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Sarah Beach

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) A screenwriting columnist for the Village Voice has written a rant about a graceless wannabe writer who consumed a chunk of time for the columnist. Remember, it is the Village Voice so the language is not … Continue reading →

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Alas, For Incomplete Research

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Sarah Beach

(Originally posted on LiveJournal) Okay, so in the background, I have the Sleuth Channel on, and they are running a marathon of NCIS episodes. I love the show: the characters are fun. Supporting character Timothy McGee has an ongoing plot-line … Continue reading →

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