Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Last week, someone paid me the ultimate authorial compliment. You can see it for yourself here, but the text reads: I loved your Seven Archangels novel. My son’s middle name is Gabriel because of it. I read that and was…
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A few months ago, I saw a ghost house. You’ve doubtless heard some variant on this story: a family is driving at night, they notice a spooky house, then later on they find out that the house was burned to…
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In the dinnertime battles, I capitulated on Tuesday. My Patient Husband had to attend a conference that extended into the evening, and the kids disliked the menu I had planned. “Suggest something else,” I said. It turned out, they all…
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Apparently this blog has been doing something right! But you knew that because you kept coming back. One of the characteristics of a successful blog is, they say, that it involves your readers with each other. A good weblog is…
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“Are you an engineer?” he asked, interrupting his own train of thought. My neighborhood is in a tizzy: the Powers That Be in Angelborough held a secret town planning commission meeting and failed to take a vote, but recorded the…
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I’m in process with revisions to Honest And For True, the novel about the mechanic who can see her guardian angel. If you’ve hung around here for a while, you remember how much fun that novel is. Since then, I’ve…
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If you ever wanted to see Joel Osteen and St. Augustine in a cage match (especially after yesterday’s post), we here at 7A4K1F can arrange it. First Joel Osteen comes out swinging, from the promo copy for his new book:…
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Amy Deardon has a post about the Prosperity Gospel and Joel Osteen. If you haven’t heard of the Prosperity Gospel, first thank God, and then be mad at me because I’m about to tell you anyhow. Prosperity Gospel is the…
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Now is the time of year when Momma is stupid. Because, you see, Momma doesn’t know that sleeves are supposed to be short. As it’s grown colder, Momma stopped using the old familiar shirts,and she pulled out these other shirts….
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Having griped yesterday about a bad business, I want to show you what seems to be a good business model to me. Check out Woot Shirt. In a nutshell: every day, they feature one (1) shirt. For that one day,…
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