Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
I need some advice from those wiser than myself. Without getting into all the details, I’ve felt compelled to make and donate a beaded scarf. The barest details involve more than four dreams, one of which I actually saw myself…
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Kiddo#2 was singing while I washed dishes, when suddenly she stopped. “Why are all the songs you like about love?” I honestly cannot remember which song it was she had been singing at the time, but does it really matter?…
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I ended up at the doctor’s office for a sinus infection. I hadn’t seen the doctor in over two years, a duration I highly recommend. First off, Dr. H is a sharp cookie. He walks in and says, “Oh, you’re…
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Seven Archangels: Annihilation, chapter 8 is up over at MindFlights. This chapter is pivotal to Raphael. He’s one of my favorite characters, and I love writing him, but he definitely goes through a wringer in this book.
I have to admit I was stunned by the 2/25 Dear Abby. (First letter.) The gist of the letter is, the letter-writer had two beautiful children with her first husband, and now her second husband wants to have a baby….
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In the middle of the night, I staggered out of bed to use the bathroom, which is getting tougher to do with this baby in my middle. So there I am, in the middle of the night, chilly, exhausted, unable…
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I’m 33 weeks pregnant, and so help me, I’m nesting. Have I cleaned anything? No. Have I begun cooking mountains of food? No. Have I caught up on the laundry? Well, kind of, but I’ve been good about laundry lately….
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To continue the bit on advertorial writing, there’s a challenge in writing it because you want the reader hooked, and yet you’re writing non-fiction. You interview the One With The Dream, and you find out how much the organization rocks….
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Not the artist, but the subject of the drawing: I got a good laugh out of that. Web arguments always seem to get so tense.
Your first thought is, “What on earth is advertorial?” No, it’s not adversarial. It’s advertising plus editorial, those articles you see in the newspaper that are actually ads. They’re paid for like ads, but they’re written by freelancers like me. I…
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