Yay! It’s Flash Fiction Friday! I’m kidless for a few hours [woohoo!] so Jan and I got together on Skype, bemoaned the lack of good writing prompts [open a magazine to a page and write about the first picture you see. Um, no], then trawled around the ‘net some more and I finally made one up to honor the heroes of 9/11. Tim would never forget where he was when he heard planes had crashed Read more
Okay – it’s coming tomorrow. Today, Jan [my ‘other mom’] and I did a Five Minute Flash Fiction exercise. We had a prompt. We had five minutes and… GO! We spent five minutes writing about Alice tried to remember who had given her the key. then we exchanged our version of Alice and the key. She posted it on one of her blogs and I posted mine in the comments. We decided to make it Read more
YAY! I’m finally getting to post a review on Wednesday :). I’ve been planning to do this for like a month and a half now, but things like Christopher’s ‘let’s play the stop breathing game’ and hospital visit stuff then school got in the way. I have about fifteen books sitting on the table next to me that need reviewed and returned to the library. The plan is to do that then they’re all ready Read more
Yeah so this is late. Internet was floofy last night. I really did enjoy Out of Her Hands though I’m not sure that comes across in the review. I think I need a new review numbering system… Five stars just doesn’t have enough nuance, I don’t think. So here’s to 10 stars with definitions probably along the lines of those at Overweight Bookshelf – at least until I come up with something witty of my Read more
It’s September. That means it’s time for me to send out the serious queries to guys like Steve Laube and all of the agents at Books and Such and so on. Of course, today there’s a post by Michael Hyatt on his blog [Top Ten Posts of August – hits wise] and there’s a link to a post he made with all of the agents he’s worked with who work with Christian authors. There’s like Read more
So we went to Tulsa yesterday for a quick trip to see my dad, stepmom, stepsister and her family. I had found Megan DiMaria’s website thanks to a link on someone else’s blog [how bad is it I’ve forgotten who!? AH!] – that was Thursday. I reserved her two books through the library but they weren’t in on Friday, but both happened to be at the library that’s not too far out of Matt’s way Read more
I was on Candace Calvert’s Facebook page and she was having a drawing for sharing your ‘summer blessing’. I thought for a minute. Christopher is my summer blessing – he’s a July baby – but that was three years ago. And then the gratitude hit me. It was just 3 weeks or so ago that I could have very easily lost him. I hadn’t planned on changing his diaper before he went to bed. He Read more
/sigh/ I know I missed the first weekly ‘What I Read Wednesday’. The day was insane. Insane amounts of rain – part of our county got a foot; not sure how much we got but felt like that much. Dentist appointments. Checking out a place for a birthday party. Dinner at Chick-fil-A [thank God for coupons! And for good friends who happen to own it who give them to you for your birthday ;)]. I Read more
I know I haven’t posted since we got home from the hospital. Part of it is that we’ve been busy. Christopher took up a lot of time – just being a cuddle bug, etc. School started for the girls. School started for Matt. School started for me. Doc appointments. Everything else. I got a phone call a week and a half ago asking me to teach another class on a different campus [the college I Read more
After three days in the hospital, we’re headed home. The general consensus is that Christopher doesn’t tolerate the codeine very well. After mentioning that, Matt’s mom and aunt both mentioned that they can’t take it :p. Would have been good to know but now we do :). It’s not bad enough to list as an allergy, but to use with extreme caution and mention it to health care providers in the future. He had another Read more