A letter from someone at our adoption agency. I went and looked at the pictures of the children and immediately fell in love with the very first child posted — a four year old boy. Unfortunately, we don’t really need any more four-year-old boys here at the Wright Household: Hello! My name is Emily Beddingfield…
This took Honorable Mention in a Space Limerick Contest: Dear Wash, can you keep me from anger? I beg you, do not bump or bang her Just soar like a leaf Or you’ll have ground beef I’m a cow in Serenity’s hanger! — SuccatashMore winning Space Limericks.
We went to visit our in-laws today, and the boys wanted to play X-Men on the X-Box. However, neither they nor John have any experience with this, so even the easiest villains were too difficult for them. So, Abe, our oldest nephew (a Junior in high school) set the game so that they could fight…
Again…only for those interested in praying. Of no literary or amusement value: This month, our subject is: diseases that are no longer yielding to medicine. When I was in New York in October, the papers were full of cases of people who had been killed by Staph infections that would not respond to any known medicine.…
When John was young, his father played the ukulele and sang songs John thought his dad had written, but which turned out to merely be old favorites (such as “Seven Old Ladies Stuck In A Lavatory.” ) The opposite has happened to my kids. John has made up additional lyrics to songs that my kids…
When my mother was six years old, back in the late 1930s, her family went to see the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Back then, my mother was chubby, and her idol, the person at the circus she most wanted to see was the Fat Lady. During the intermission, my mom went…
Breach The Hull, an anthology edited by our friend Mike McPhail, with stories by a number of friends, including John, is now availa
Some years ago, I had a job reviewing Shojo (girls) Anime. There’s hardly a Shojo Anime out there that does not include some boy who is in love with another boy. Sometimes, they have good reasons (possessed by the ghost of a dead sister, actually an asexual moon angel) other times, they’re just plain pervy…
The Peace Through Puppets people visited our humble blog and quoted one of Saintjoi’s comments in their latest YouTube release. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaC4cjJyHXY They also have another release at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn10jk2jRCA
I’m going to be away for two weeks. So, the next post will be sometime after October 27th. I’d appeciate if you say a prayer for my family, (particularly John and Juss). They’ve never had to get by without me before. ;-)