Dear Homeowners…
Dear Homeowners: I don’t want to move away from Angeltown, but today we looked at your home in Angelville. Your home has been big on my mind ever since my Patient Husband showed me your listing. It’s beautiful. I loved…
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Monthly Archive: May 2008
A do-it-yourself rosary
Over at Ivy’s Vine, she’s got a video teaching how to make a rosary, and if you leave a comment, you are entered into a drawing for the rosary she made in the video. Ivy’s the same person who does…
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Weblog tour: the smell of nostalgia
We have a new weblog tour question! As usual, after I’m done, readers are encouraged to post their own answer in the comment box. What’s your favourite smell in the world and why? Scent is the least-used descriptor in novels…
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Hairy-Hairy
I interrupted getting dressed to deal with Kiddo#2 and Kiddo#3 fighting in the bathroom. K3: “You look like a hairy-hairy!” K2: “No!” K3: *hee* “You look like a hairy-hairy!” K2: “No!” This could have continued for hours (it did go…
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Reflections on…reflections
I went through an old journal and found an entry that’s something you’ve come to expect from Drizzle, and yet it came out of my head back on 4/11/2006. I’m at karate, looking into the windows from outside. The light…
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20,000 hits (and counting)
I started this weblog in November 2007, and on March 25th I posted that we’d gotten 10,000 hits. Within 24 hours from now, two months and one day later, we’ll hit 20,000. A big thank-you to everyone who’s been visiting,…
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a parenting dilemma
What happens when zero tolerance clashes with childhood creativity? Silliness ensues, that’s what.
Annihilation: chapters 20 and 21
In Chapter 20 of Seven Archangels: Annihilation, you get the line that all my pre-readers commented on, and one book reviewer. As usual with these entries, there are spoilers beneath. It’s not my favorite moment in the chapter, but since…
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Weblog tour: Your dream job
Here’s this week’s weblog tour question: What is your dream job, and if you don’t/didn’t have it, how did that happen? My dream job would be to write as a mid-list fiction author. I don’t have it. Yet. I intend…
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In which we get a $60,000 bill
My Patient Husband opened his mail at work to find an invoice for sixty thousand dollars, payable by him. Angeltown Industries is a lovely corporation, and the more I hear about them, the more I like them. The CEO is…
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