I was reminded by John’s blog of a sister and brother from Vietnam who used to help with the photography when John and I were working for the St. Mary’s Today. They hated Communism, and, at first, I assumed that Communism, to them, was the local bugaboo, the bad thing that had hurt their country.…

My friend Tee Morris asked me to post this: Award-nominated podcaster and Fantasy author Philippa Ballantine and I are feverishly working on a new spin on an old promotion.  “Double Trouble” is the first time two authors are collaborating to get BOTH their new books — The Case of The Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings…

The biggest excuse I have seen for the lurid stuff that appears in today’s YA books is: “But kids are already doing that at that age, so what could be the harm of writing about it?”  All these folks are making an assumption: that reading about something – seeing it in print – has the…

Kids are just so much fun. Juss said the above line two days ago. I thought it was hilarious.  Today at the pool I met a lovely woman who has seven kids. Two of hers, four of his, one of theirs. Not all of them live with her all the time, but I still admired her aplomb.…

Again…only for those who care to pray. ;-) For July, I had planned to write about either weather or health, but this came to me very strongly, so for this month let us know that: “…all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”…

Rushing around to get ready to get out of the house. Had to have a number of things ready. So, I tossed Juss’s clothes at him and asked him to get dressed. He didn’t act on this…he seldom does…so I took his pajamas and left him to put on his clothes.  “Ah! Naked!” Juss yells. “Nobody…

Hey, Folks, Two nice fellows I know, fathers both and husbands of friends, suffered heart attacks this week. Both are doing well, but prayers would be welcome! Jagi

Okay, this has nothing to do with cursing octopi, but it’s a great exclamation when one is frustrated. (It comes from Nihao My Concubine — Ranma 1/2, the second movie.) We had a wonderful time visiting the Rosenes on Friday. At one point, we got to talking about the recent Prince Caspian movie. “We haven’t seen it yet,…

John reports, though I do not remember, that I once sent him an email with the subject line: The Cat Took Over The Scene. This referred to the fact that Tybolt the Cat, the familiar of my heroine Miranda Prospero, once emerged from obscuredom to take over a scene I was writing, making himself a more important character…

I think I am still in a state of shock. The school year had ended. Juss had his last day of pre-school, and the summer has really begun!  Next fall, Juss will be in Kindergarten…and, since we still don’t have our daughter…I will be at home during the day with no children! Hopefully, this will…