Welcome to
The Telgen Tattler
Click here for the latest vacation report!
It's new! It's improved! It's still got the hokey alliterative
name—because even though we’ve returned home from England, we still think of
its tabloid culture with wistful fondness (or maybe not). This webpage is a
cheap and easy way for you, all our friends and family, to keep tabs on what
the Telgens have been up to (maybe not recently, but some time in the past).
It's also a way for Diane to avoid doing housework, freelance work, any kind of
real work…
The Telgens are Bill, Diane, and, of course, David.
Since he thinks he's the center of the universe (and what eight year old isn't?), we've given him a place in the center of our webpage. This is David with our new kittens, Clio and Calliope (no, they’re not named after a PDA and a musical instrument, but after Greek muses). David is doing his best impression of a kitty wrestling ring. (Those felines may look like they’re being friendly, but the brawling starts soon after—they are sisters, after all.) David has just started third grade, and reads books everywhere (just like mom and dad). He loves writing and says he's good at math, too.
As for the adult members of the family, we’re still getting adjusted to life back in the good ole U.S. of A. Four years in a foreign country—and England is a foreign country, even if we share the same language—tends to change your perspective a bit. In the meantime Bill is enjoying his new position and new office at the RenCen with a lovely view of the river. Diane, when not rearranging the house, is working on a new novel and the occasional freelance job. Not to mention serving as family travel agent and chronicler—so take a look around the site!
For those of you who haven't been on our e-mail list, or who treat all notes from "neglet" as junk mail, or who just can't get enough of that quirkily written Telgen news, you can now access our newsletters from this web page. Here's the archive of our tales of life in England:
Vacation Report: Hey! We don't have to bore you to death with pictures and tales of our latest trip--unless you want to be bored! So here you can find reports and photos from our latest jaunt around England and the continent. (For those of you not familiar with English geography, England is not part of Europe. At least if you ask the English, it isn't.)
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Budapest: October 2001* |
Finnish Lapland: December 1999 Vienna: December 2001* *(under construction) |
Neglet
Editorial Services
Providing writing, copyediting, proofreading, indexing, and coding services.
Okay,
that's just my name for my little freelance business. I'm not incorporated, and
I sure don't have a mission statement (unless I take it from the immortal words
of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster: "Work hard. Play fair. Eat
cookie."). But I will do all kinds of editorial work for money (cookies
don't direct deposit into the bank, and I wouldn't know how to report them on
my tax return anyway). I even have a readers' pass for the British Library, for
which I had to prove I was a real writer. So if any of my old pals in the publishing
business are checking this site out, get in touch! You can fall for it too—er,
I may be able to do some work for you. Contact me at: diane at neglet.com
A Mage and His Dog
Yes, Diane has actually finished
that fantasy novel she sometimes admits to writing. And yes, she's finally
started putting some of it up on the website. So click here if you want to read Chapter 1; if you'd like to adventure
further after reading that, send me a note and I'll e-mail you the next
chapter.
All text and photos copyright © 2001 by Diane Telgen. All rights reserved.
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