So…who is doing NaNo Wri Mo and what is your WIP?   I am not doing it, but I am making an extra push on my current project: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin: Book Two–The Raven, The Elf, and Rachel.

   Our church is sponsoring a lecture on Saturday, November 10th at 2:30 at the Chantilly Regional Library.   The subject is: Defeating Violence Through Prayer. The lecturer is: John Quincy Adams, III   Normally, I would not make a big deal about a lecture, but this one is very special to me. In our…

The three children: Rachel Griffin, her friend Sigfried Smith, and his girlfriend, Fearless Girl Report Valerie Fox, have just watched a group of adults repair a broken stone building with magic.   Wow!” Valerie snapped a last picture. “Why don’t they do repairs this way after storms and earthquakes? That would speed up disaster recovery more…

The lost Victor Von Doom doll has been found and reunited with his missing boot. He is back in his cubby, and no longer striving to take over the world. The world is safe once again.

FANTASTIC HEROINES OF SCI FI & FANTASY   Authors Brenda Clough, Mindy Klasky, L. Jagi Lamplighter and Jeri Smith-Ready will talk about the heroine in literature, both in their own works and those that have influenced them.   * *Colleen Cahill, Library of Congress Recommending Officer for Fantasy and Science Fiction, will moderate what is sure to…

When I was young, there was a cut of dress that had been around for about 50 year or so. People wore them. You saw them in old pictures. They were popular in a longer form during the Edwardian period. I saw them in real life. I saw them in photographs. I saw them on…

So, Juss has decided to form a corporation…to make origami Star Wars stuff, I think. I'm sorry to admit I wasn't paying attention when he first told me. He asked me what he should do with his inventions: sell them or just keep them. He then told me he had some employees. "Puppy?" I asked,…

Hard to believe it's been three years!  

It is amazing the difference one word makes. When I changed the description of the top of the tower from 'upstairs round chamber' to belfry…it made such a difference in the scene.  

Reading DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, Juss pointed out that ‘gonna’ was not correct grammar. I explained why it was there. He said, “Kids do write that way. But not me. I use correct grammar, because I’m precocious. And I know what precocious means, which means, I’m precocious.”   Juss just read the line in…