From: All Girls Allowed. Dear friends and prayer warriors; Nie Lina is back in prison, this time with her 70-year old mother and her infant daughter. Last April, we asked you to pray for Nie Lina, who was imprisoned and scheduled to have a forced abortion. When you prayed, God in Heaven…
Rafe the Scruffy Angel of Joy Some time ago, I promised to begin a series of articles about writing about the Great Ideas. The first Great Idea listed by Mortimer Adler happens to be Angels. So, today, I thought I would write about writing about angels. Some things are intrinsically hard…
Westchester County, NY has discontinued funding to its museums. Here is a petition to save the Ward Pound Ridge Trailside Nature Museum…where I spent my childhood as a volunteer. It was such a magical and interesting place…where I learned so much about our wonderful natural world. It also houses a Deleware Indian Study Center that…
This morning we had sixteen people in the house for our Thanksgiving Breakfast. Then, for our turkey dinner, we had the normal 9 who currently live here. Both meals, except for the lovely dishes brought by family and friends, were provided either by an unknown church who gave us a turkey and all sorts of…
What do advertisers get by putting weird ads as comments on LiveJournal? Does anybody EVER do anything except delete them? Usually, they don’t even make sense.
May God be with her wherever she is now.
So, I’ve just had someone complain about the pro-Catholic dogma in the Prospero series…and someone else compliment me for its anti-Catholic stance. It makes me wonder, rather chagrinned, how much of things I don’t like in books I read do I bring to them myself.
The morning of the Princess’s Sixteenth birthday, I drove her to school with a plate of cupcakes she had requested. Then, I picked up the two girls–the Princess and the Lady-In-Waiting–because they called and said they could not find their bus. LOL Then, a teacher came by with a huge supply of clothes for Ling…
Still working Wednesday mornings, so here is a very short post. Chapter One of my current WIP, the project I am working on for the month of November: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin. Book One: Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts Chapter One: The Treacherous Art of Making Friends This chapter…
Today, we have a very special treat–a post from my editor, Jim Frenkel of Tor Books. In the world of writing, the great question we writers and striving writers always have is: What do the editors think? What are editors looking for? Here is a tiny peek into the mysterious world of that most elusive…