Adventures in E.R. Land
Sometimes I think that a particular month is comprised wholly of fail, meaning that nothing in it or very little in it has gone well. The month of May was one of those months. It even ended with a bang. Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Empire Trilogy
Raymond E. Feist, author of the quite lengthy Riftwar Cycle series (30 novels and 3 short stories in length), wasn’t my favorite author as a teen. In fact, I stopped reading the Riftwar Cycle somewhere around book 9, Shadow of Read More…
RIP Maya Angelou
Greatness comes in many shapes, many forms, and doesn’t always flout its greatness. In fact, many would argue that the greatest in our world are those that just live. They live as themselves and give of themselves so that others Read More…
My Real Job as Cat Herder
I started this post with the intention to say, let’s be frank as in let’s be honest, but then…cat. So let’s be DiNozzo, here. According to my cats, I am not a writer. My real job is a cat herder. Read More…
Flashback Friday: Gulliver’s Travels
The first time I read Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (published in 1726), I was ten. My father and I were up in Michigan visiting my paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. I remember it was the holidays, and we Read More…
“It must be nice not having to work…”
In the 17 months since I retired teaching to write full-time, I’ve heard that sentence from more people than I care to mention. Some of them friends and family. Some of them people who want to be writers. The other Read More…
Flashback Friday: The White Raven
I read The White Raven by Diana L. Paxson in 8th grade, with no knowledge that it was a retelling of the Celtic legend about Tristan and Iseult. In fact, I’d never even heard the legend of Tristan and Iseult in Read More…
Real reality? Why I can’t stand some fiction…
I just finished reading Insurgent (2nd book in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth) and enjoyed it enough that book 3 is on its way to my mailbox (thanks Amazon Prime!). Honestly, I enjoyed Book II more than Book I. Read More…
Flashback Friday: The Mists of Avalon
EDIT: Since writing this post, I’ve learned about the author’s history of child molestation and abuse. I can no longer support MZB’s works or this book. You can read more on that here. 876 pages. That’s the length of Marion Read More…
Momentary Derpiness
The following conversation took place this morning as I was driving my husband to his work in SLU, and boy did it prove just how asleep my mind was! It was a conversation worthy of the Bloggess herself: Husband: You Read More…
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