There is a phenomena that has happened to me several times in my life, where one person copies something from another and then finds out that the first person did not make up it up after all. Example: I misremembered the rainbow line from Sunshine Superman to include the line: "while I tie up rainbows you can have…
The last few days, for the first time, the Cherubim has been putting on his socks and shoes on his own in the morning. (He’s quite capable of this, but normally his socks are a bit tight and hard to get on.) This morning before school, he actually sat down to eat breakfast when asked.…
I stayed up until 1am last night finishing reading Mad Kestrel by Misty Massey — a rousing pirate romp about a girl pirate with a touch of magic negotiating through the crooked paths of stolen ships and untrustworthy shipmates. I don’t get to read a lot of books…all my extra time is spent with the…
John has an article in this newly released book:
Some days, Juss just makes me laugh.
A friend just sent this: Where do bad pagans go after death? To Heaven, with the Christians.
I’ve discovered that I love trees. Isn’t that weird? You think I would have noticed before this, but no. It took getting a digital camera for Christmas. Now all of a sudden, I am spending all this time taking pictures of trees. I could never have done this with film, too expensive…but with the digital camera? I’ve got…
Author Misty Massey, who may actually be a pirate, is running a "book safari giveaway" on her website. This is in celebration of the mass market (that’s paperback to the uninitiated) release of her novel: Mad Kestrel.
The best part of a birthday is that night, after it is all over, when we gather together on a bed and read Happy Birthday To You! by Dr. Seuss. We have a new copy, but I still have my old copy from when I was five. Sometimes, we read that. All snug in our pajamas, we are whooshed off…
Justinian wanted a Mach 6 cake to take to his kindergarden class. He ended up with a Mach 5 and a Mach 6. (They look like the movie one he got as a toy.) The wheels were Reeses, which I was particularly proud of.