We got interm reports from the school yesterday…apparently four report cards a year are not good enough, the poor teachers also have to send interm reports half way through the semester. (The Princess’s teachers have to email them, too.) The elementary schools don’t use A, B, C, D, and F. They use N, S, G,…
My daughter wants to know what wiped out the dinosaurs. Our answers did not satisfy her, so she wants to go look in every country to find out if there are dinosaurs somewhere. She says if she raises one from a baby ‘maybe it no go to eat everyone.’ She also wants to know ‘how…
Tiffany Tang in The Storm Warriors Last night John and I were watching The Storm Warriors, a beautifully-filmed Chinese martial arts movie with huge doses of awe and splendor. John does not care for dubbed movies, so we were watching it in Cantonese with English subtitles…even though I was trying to do laundry at…
A free Christian Science lecture on What is Christian Science and How does it heal? Monday, March 21st 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Bull Run Elementary 5301 Lee Highway (Route 29) Centreville, VA 20124-2126 At the light of Lee Highway (Route 29) and Pleasant Valley Road An understanding of God leads…
I’m stymied here. I wondered if any of you have any ideas. Problem: The boys computer crashed. I restored it and got online. I could connect to Gmail and Google, but could not reach Norton or a couple of other websites. I tried to go to You Tube and was told that I…
Saturday, February 19th from 2pm to 4pm, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Mike McPhail, Jeff Young, Peter Prellwitz and Robert E. Waters will be featured at a launch party for the book By Other Means, the latest in the award-winning Defending The Future military science fiction anthology series. The event will be held at the Midtown Scholar in…
The opening song for the movie The Court Jester includes the memorable line: “Plot we’ve got, quite a lot!” And it is all the more memorable for being so true. (The Court Jester, if you have not seen it, really does have a great deal of plot, most of it both convoluted and humorous.)…
A reader and friend who is a fan of donkeys and who is a supporter of a wonderful donkey sanctuary in England, sent me some delightful photos of donkeys she picked out to represent the various characters from the Prospero’s Daughter Trilogy. I like to think of this as what happens the day that Logistilla’s…
Welcome, Everyone, glad to be back! Plot is the part of the story that compels the reader forward, the logical structure upon which the narrative hangs. So what makes a great plot? I was going to write a post on this topic but, when reviewing the Poetics, I realized that Aristotle said it better: As…
Juss, upon receiving a MacDonald’s Happy Meal: “But Mom! I got a girltoy!” Mom: “I asked for a boytoy.” Juss: “Well, I got a girltoy.” Mom: “You were supposed to get a trunk.” Juss, voice filled with outrage and horrified astonishment, “I got a pony!” comments