Recipe Needed
I want the boys to make a cake or cupcakes for the Cub Scout Derby. It has to be from scratch. Anyone have a good recipe?
Wonderful Day!
First, we went to a Chinese New Year party for families with children adopted from China. In one of those weird serendipitous things, it was organized by the sister of our friend Trisha, whom we traveled with in China. (Trisha adopted a lovely daughter named Julia. Her sister had two daughters and has a referral…
Gosh! I’m so glad that there was no blogging when I was young!
I just had this sudden vision of the kind of melodramatic drivel I would have blogged about if I had had access to blogging when I was young. Judging by what I wrote in my journal at the time and the kind of thing I said to perfect strangers, I probably would have written a great deal personal feelign and emotional…
Wright’s Writing Corner: Interior Dialogue
Interior Dialogue: Readers don’t trust dialogue. Have your characters think, and have what they think be juxtaposed to the dialogue, showing a new angle. This one I learned the hard way. When I first started writing novels, I was under the impression that the best writing was like a screen play, all dialogue. So, I set out…
Modern News Abominable.
Recently, charges were made against our adoption agency, CWA (Christian World Adoption.) Horrified, CWA sent their lawyer to investigate and discovered that none of the alligations were true. (One made no sense anyway, and the other they had paperwork showing it was not the case.) CWA’s lawyer then had an hour long interview with CBS…
Overheard at the Wright Household
J Juss’s Mario Mushroom Birthday Cake Juss at the busstop: "I hate school! I just want to talk to Daddy. Daddy makes everything interesting. School is boring!" Also. Juss: "I want to be homeschooled." Mommy: "You do realize that would be me. Daddy has to work." Juss, without so much as pausing: "Not on the weekend!…
Signing in Manassas
John and I will be signing books at : The Manassas Barnes and Nobles on Sudley Road. We will be there Saturday, February 20th between 5 and 7 pm. Address:Westgate Plaza8117 Sudley Road, Manassas, VA 20109(703) 393-0910
Blue Beard
No, not the pirate, the other one, Dwalin. I’ve read the Hobbit a dozen times, but I never noticed until John read it aloud to the boys, that Dwalin’s beard is BLUE. Not black, not brown…blue! Other dwarves are described as having white, yellow, or red beards…not so odd. But Dwalin, the first dwarf to visit…
Great Backyard Bird Count
Start’s today. Info: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/ Haven’t seen a bird yet today, despite buying birdfood. Yesterday, Ping-Ping and I saw some huge ravens in the trees out back.
Too Cool For School!
Today was a great day. Arko came to visit. We haven’t seen him since the day, over a year ago, when Juss cried the hardest I’ve ever seen him cry because he couldn’t hear Arko anymore. I think Arko came by because I’ve been reading Juss Peter Circus Clown, the book my mom wrote when she…