Wonderful friends from church arrived on Thursday with a bunk bed, a mattress, and brightly colored bedding for Ling Shan. It took us until yesterday to get it set up, but now the girls are settling in, much happier with beds than on the floor or downstairs. The first thing that happened with the bunk…
So, this morning, my son goes out the door with his father to go to school, and I realize that I have forgotten his lunch. He realizes it to. He calls me from school and asks for the lunch. I throw it together and jump in the car with the Cherubim. (Tornado Two is quietly…
Juss, putting his backpack on in the door, after the bus has already arrived, asks out of the blue… “Mom, what is the first movie, not first made but in time…” Mom, without hesitation or waiting to hear the rest of the question, while urging him onward down toward the street. “Phatom Menace! Now go!”…
Today, I am featured on not one but two separate blogs! Both great places to be! So, instead of a weekly column by me, I’ll post the links and you can visit the sites. The first is The Literary Handyman, a wonderful site for info about the writing life and occupation, maintained by author Danielle…
I think my all time favorite thing about Google is that it fills stuff in for you. If you forget a term or don’t know quite how to spell it, it will give suggestions. I use that ALL the time. I am so grateful for it.
Lovely Guest Blog today by returning favorite, author and editor Danielle Ackley-McPhail. Danielle is the author of numerous works and the editor of, among other things, the Bad Ass Faeries Anthologies. (For more on Danielle’s work, see links at the bottom.) The Naming of Names (originally published in Allegory Magazine, www.allegoryezine.com) By Danielle Ackley-McPhail Have you…
Ping-Ping’s sweet Chinese girlfriend got thrown out of her house, for reasons I won’t go into here. (She is 18 but still in school to try to learn enough English in order to graduate.) So, now she is living with us. Ping-Ping could not be happier.
As it says above. The review is here: http://www.bookspotcentral.com/2011/10/06/prospero-regained-by-l-jagi-lamplighter-review/#more-640
About two years ago, I first posted my writing tips. A reader suggested I write an essay about each one, which I did. Since it has been a while, I have decided to post them again. Each tip is linked to the subsequent article I wrote on that tip…except for one at the bottom that…
And, today, also Author Joshua Palmatier/Benjamin Tate interviews me on his JPSorrows blog: http://jpsorrow.livejournal.com/322961.html It is a happy, Prospero-y day!