Oh, my God! It worked!
Wonder of wonder…the petitions and protests worked. They are not closing the Ward Pound Ridge Trailside Nature Museum–the place I spent much of my childhood–after all!!! God bless 'em!
Awash With Christmas Gratitude: Our George Bailey Moment
About a week ago, an incident here at the Wright Household led John to post a request for money on his blog. What happened next, is nothing short of a Christmas Miracle. John did not quite get the facts correctly, so here is the real story, in its entirety. Two years ago,…
Follow Up To Last Week’s Guest Post
Douglas Cobb's Lily, Unleashed, the first book of The Case Files of Lily and PAWS can be downloaded at Amazon.com for free this entire weekend. The second one, Lily and PAWS: The Ghosts of Summer, will be offered for free as a download this Saturday. If you should chose to take advantage of this…
Those Odd Episodes In LIfe We Never Quite Understand
Occasionally, something odd happens in life and is never explained. In 1985, I was sitting in a vehicle on my way to Baltimore to attend my first Science Fiction Convention with some friends who had talked me into leaving college for the weekend and coming on this adventure. Part way there, my friend exclaimed…
Wright’s Writing Corner: Guest Blog by Douglas Cobb
Douglas Cobb of Professor Crazy fame has done us the honor of guest blogging on the subject of publishing an e-book! He writes: I have been a fan of L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright’s novels for a few years now, and have been fortunate enough to have gotten the chance and honor to review a couple…
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…
Wright’s Writing Corner: On Angels
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…
Save The Trailside Nature Musuem
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…
Thanksful for Thanksgiving!
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…
Wha…huh?
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.