prayer request – writing
The novel I wrote from January – April and edited from May to August is now being queried around. Please say a prayer that God guides the manuscript where it needs to go. And yes, sometimes the manuscript needs to…
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Monthly Archive: August 2009
Cat at home
We decided not to take our cats on vacation with us because we are, for the most part, sane. (No wisecracks, there.) The cats remained at home with someone to come minister to them once a day during our trip….
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Love, forgiveness, reconciliation
Jason Block has, in my comments, accused me of dangerous behavior. You ain’t seen dangerous yet. 🙂 He writes: To continue on, what you are doing is incredibly dangerous on three levels. You stated, “I know that as a Christian,…
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Book Review: Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs
For starters, I’m not a regular consumer of vampire fiction. To date, I have read exactly one vampire novel, and you’re reading its review. I “met” Molly Harper in an online forum and picked up the novel only because of…
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Don’t let the sun go down
Last Friday, a maintenance worker locked my seven year old daughter in the restroom at the beach. Fortunately I happened to be standing right there and got her immediately unlocked (as well as another female patron who’d been trapped with…
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Rosary mania!
I got an email from rosary.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Catholic Company, which gives me free books for review. I’m just saying. They recently bought the domain, Rosary.com. Before then, it was owned by a spammer who had abused…
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The great rosary debate!
There’s a great and terrible battle tearing apart the heart of Catholicism, and you must choose a side. Well, actually, there’s something I’ve noticed. Those who pray the rosary fall into two camps: “On the bead” and “between the bead.”…
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a cure for morning sickness
For starters, I am not pregnant. Don’t go getting excited. But despite not being pregnant, last Wednesday I was morning-sick. It snuck up on me, where I realized as I stood in the kitchen that I was experiencing that five-times-familiar…
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Something to tell my grandkids
For my fifth bike explore, I planned a route on actual streets that I knew existed as opposed to streets that used to exist and had been removed. How quaint. The loop of streets I picked looked safe enough on…
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*BAMF!*
My kids have decided I need the power of personal teleportation, and they have also decided I will mercilessly embarrass them if I acquire it. For one thing, they love saying “BAMF!” (ala Nightcrawler) and laugh crazily every time. They…
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