Snow Adventure

I braved the ever-falling snow today. I packed Sophie and my mom in the minivan and took them to Safeway. On the way I missed a stop sign, u...

WIP Wednesday: Another Binge

It's late. But it is still Wednesday for the next fifteen minutes, so here's a little Work-In-Progress update. I haven't had tim...

Stomachache Land

I trust everyone had a good Christmas. I did. In the morning we opened presents. In the evening we went to my in-law's house and ate. A ...

Home for the Holidays

You're not going to believe it. We're moved into our new house, out of my in-law's house, we're hooked up to the internet,...

Haitus

I'll be briefly on haitus. Mainly because we're moving today and won't have internet access at our new house until Wednesday. Al...

FitG Update: Speak

Amazing. An absolutely amazing, hilarious, vivid, heart-wrenching book. Speak speaks to the teenage experience and to the terrible realitie...

Sick

Olivia is sick. I can tell because she has stopped. Just stopped. She's not thumping around. She's not dragging things from one loca...

Snow Day and a tiny WIP update

Our first snow day couldn't have come at a better time. Last night we were planning on a two-hour delay, but this morning we got the big...

One Week

I have one week. One week to unpack our boxes. One week to find a place for everything. One week to haul in a tree, decorate it, hang up sto...

Settle

Yesterday I started unpacking boxes at our new house: plastic storage boxes layered in dust and sturdy cardboard boxes with Chinese writing ...

FitG Update: The Graveyard Book

On the night when a mysterious man called Jack murders an entire family, there's one who escapes the edge of his knife. A baby boy toddl...

Snow

today it snows finally warming us covering the cold blankness the ting of frozen cement the crunch of ice-grass softening the blast of wind ...

Creation

Your writing is your creation. Your characters' worlds are based on reality, but they're places and names and surroundings you'v...

Cowboy Church

Tonight I got to sing a couple of duets for the Cowboy Church. I'm not kidding. There is such a thing as Cowboy Church. I didn't kno...

WIP Wednesday: Typing Keeps Your Fingers Warm

Just a quick update on this sunny, frozen Wednesday. For those of you who are newish to my blog, WIP stands for Work In Progress, and while ...

Clean your Room!

I'm not a gimmicky parent. In other words, I don't have a bagful of tricks to get my kids to obey me. I rarely play games with them ...

Don't Feed the Dog

My sister-in-law has a miniature dachshund named Sadie. She's cute. She's sweet. She's little. She's also a little bit stupi...

The Season

'Tis the season to... ...Set the Costco-sized bottle of Eucerin in its place by the sink. Anything to assuage these cracked, burning knu...

Details

Yesterday I went shopping. At the door of the store sat a man ringing a bell. Next to the man ringing the bell was a red bucket with a sign ...