Getting Betta All The Time
Betta fish are a gateway drug. They don’t warn you, but it’s true. “Oh, just get this fish. He’s only six bucks, and he can live in this softball-sized jar.” Then you learn: they’re not supposed to live in a…
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HAFT on AskDavid
Honest And For True got featured on AskDavid, so if you don’t mind, please go check it out, tell them what you think of the book, and maybe tweet it (you can hashtag it #FridayReads if you want it to…
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“One of the best things a woman can do for herself is learn to fix a toilet.”
Another 500 words from Honest And For True. You know you want this book. Friday night I spend exactly as a woman of my stature should: on her knees in front of her mother’s toilet. And I have my niece…
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More 5K angst
After a conversation yesterday with my friend Judy, I realized that Judy and I are both using exactly the same fact to argue for opposite things. She said I can do a 5K; I said I can’t. Today, when I…
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So, how creepy would this be?
“On a scale of one to ten,” I asked my Patient Husband, “how creepy would this be?” He said, “With zero being ‘not creepy at all’ and ten being ‘I’ve already called the cops’?” Yes. It’s now Real Estate season….
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Laughably bad rejection letters
My fish are still alive, although they keep scaring me. Today I’m blogging over at QueryTracker about some of the laughably bad rejections writers get, and how to deal with them. But I think it works for non-writers too because…
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Tiny Cold Feet
Winter is making me crazy. (How crazy, Jane?) This crazy. A couple of weeks ago, as I put up the garage door to bring the boys to an appointment, a weird thumping sounded from outside. Given the 56 inches of…
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Funerals and laughter
I attended Uncle Mayhem‘s funeral about three weeks ago. At my aunt’s house before we went to the church, I’d been there about ten minutes before I noticed Kiddo1 looking shocked. I pulled him aside and said, “This is how Italian…
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That rosary?
It’s home. It’s been identified, and it’s with its proper owner. As it turns out, that rosary took a path it never should have taken to that donation table, but now it’s home and it’s being properly appreciated by the…
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Goodreads Giveaway for Arrow
Just a quick post: I’ve listed a giveaway for a print copy of An Arrow In Flight over at Goodreads. If you’ve got a GR account, go ahead and enter! Good luck.