Batteries, batteries
My laptop’s battery is in freefall. When I first got it, fully charged it gave four hours of use. Right now it starts at two–or that’s what it claims. Within ten minutes, it’s lost half an hour, and it continues…
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Monthly Archive: January 2008
My agent’s parting gift, kind of
A week and a half ago, my ex-literary-agent told me he’d gotten out of fiction. I immediately started contacting other agents, and I had to rework the proposal plus get together a submission history. So far, so good. But in…
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Annihilation: chapter three
Seven Archangels: Annihilation, chapter three, has now been posted! Chapter Three: Gabriel awakens chained in Hell, where he learns about the enemy’s plans to annihilate him. His attempt to escape is thwarted when Satan arrives. My favorite moment from this…
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Bigfoot versus the second sock
Kiddo#1, jealous that Kiddo#2 got my first pair of socks, asked for my second pair. No problem. (For the record, Kiddo#2 only got the socks because I cast on too tightly and couldn’t get the thing over my ankle.) Yesterday,…
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on analyzing one’s literary output
Writers have this “thing” where (for some of us) we like to go back and re-read our own work and feel pleased with our literary output. We might have to set it down for a while before we do this,…
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prayer request
A mom on a parenting forum I frequent just lost her baby. I believe she was at term. This is totally unexpected. Please pray for D. and her family as they deliver their little one. I don’t even know what…
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voting with a toddler/preschooler
I wrote this for the primaries, but it holds true today too, so I’m bumping it to the top of the weblog. Here’s how to keep your sanity while voting with a small child! — If you are looking at…
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a question about Iraq
My opinionated relatives frequently share their opinions with me, and I wanted some feedback. I’m the kind of person politicians love because when I hear an opinion, I generally think “Oh, okay!” and only analyze it later. (Actually, maybe they…
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more overthinking “The Lorax”
Yesterday I beat The Lorax to death and pulled out symbolism that might have left Dr. Seuss shaking his head. Fun, huh? Let’s do it again. The more I read the story, the more compassion I feel for the Onceler….
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ten million crows
One of those days, you know. I opted to take the one-hour glucose challenge for this pregnancy, but I went all space-cadet on what “one hour before the blood draw” means, so I ended up drinking the orange goop half…
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