Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
For Valentine’s Day, my Patient Husband and I did the most romantic thing we could think of, keeping in mind that we’re both geeks with a limited imagination and no sense of romance: we watched the MST3K version of Warrior…
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Again, while gearing up for a massive fight with a doctor, I remembered some good fights from the past. In 1998 I got a notice from my insurance company that they weren’t going to pay a claim because the visit…
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I’m going to have to do Mighty Battle with a doctor in the next few days, so I’m gearing up by remembering Mighty Battles of the past. In this one, my insurance company went to bat for me. When I…
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The novel-in-progress is the first where I used an actual plotting technique to plan the novel, as opposed to letting it unfold as the characters naturally reacted to the results of the decisions they’d made. I’m 23,000 words into the…
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I recently read a novel by a best-selling author only to find the ending deeply unsatisfying. The author could definitely write. In fact, that was the problem: the author had set up the protagonist’s main conflict so deeply and so…
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I’m a stats junkie. Even on my personal website, which gets maybe one page view per century, I’ll check my google analytics page to find out what people were looking at and what search term they used to get there….
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Kiddo#3 got moved to a red frog because: He refused to follow directions and complete his assignment, kicking the table and yelling. Dear Mrs. KindergartenTeacher: Kiddo#3 has negative feelings about his red frog, as you can see from the way…
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Back when I was seventeen, I was still a neophyte Philangelus and was still devouring books on angels whenever I could find them. At one point, I came across one that messed up my spirituality for a while. At the…
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I’m reposting this with permission of Petra (who wrote it) from one of my online groups. I’ve got two reasons: one, it’s important information, and two, I’m still feeling under the weather and a guest-post is a good way to…
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Today at the grocery store, I saw something I’d never seen before: a woman grocery shopping while using a crutch. I had The Baby with me, and I’ve just been sick, but I realized she needed help. And I couldn’t…
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