Marietta Publishing and editors Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. JagiLamplighter, Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman are proud to announce that Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad has been awarded the 2009 EPPIE Award for Best Anthology. Presented this night at the 2009 EPICon in Las Vegas, the award recognizes excellence in electronic publishing. We…
My favorite story written by my husband is called "One Bright Star To Guide Them." For years, however, he could not sell it because it was very long. One day, he and I were taking a walk and I said that I didn’t like the end of it. John went home and rewrote the end, making the…
I broke my five year streak of seeing nothing and went and saw Slumdog Millionaire today. It was worth it. Very good movie! Here are some more. I’m sure I’ve seen more I’ve forgotten or never knew the name of. Bold means I’ve seen ’em. Italics means I think I saw it, but maybe I saw the stage play…
The word "vetted" is everywhere, and everyone uses it as if they know what they are talking about…even though I’d never heard it until recently. But when I asked friends, even the kind who usually know their stufft, none of them knew where the word came from or what it really meant (other than the obvious.) So,…
Here’s a meme I picked up off my flist from laariii. (Thanks!) Here is a list of Oscar nominees for the last X number of years. Copy the list and put in bold (enbolden?) the ones you have seen: 1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner’s Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess1981 Chariots of…
Today, at breakfast, after consuming toast with honey, Juss discovered that the stickiness made it so that he could produce a really good "Live long and prosper" hand gesture. (Hand up, thumb out, fingers splayed down the middle.) The following conversation then ensued: Mommy: "Now you can be a Vulcan." Juss: "What’s a Vulcan." Mommy: "They’re from Star Trek. They’re…
"What!!! You mean Japan and Spanish aren’t the same country???" Juss was devastated. Absolutely devastated.
The Cherubim is a sweet and easy going guy, but he can be stubborn if he doesn’t want to do something. "No." He never raises his voice, but he says it very firmly, and the only thing that will change his mind is to count to five. Once in a while, counting to five doesn’t…
We have fallen in love with Disney’s Pixie Hollow…all of us! Now, mind you, I live in a house with four men: John the manly husband, Orville, the Cherubim, and Juss — surely the mos t boyish of boys. And yet…every one of the family (well, the Cherubimhasn’t done it yet, but we plan to give him…
Found this on a friend’s site: The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions:1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.3) Star (*) those you…