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Husband is watching / listening to a photo tools tutorial in the other room (the room where he can ask for spelling assistance without leaving his chair). I want a tutorial. The guy showing him around his new program is so gracious and polite. He even lets him know when the program is about to

I’m close to 20,000 words on my new project. That’s 20,000 out of 50,000. Can we all say “Nearly half way”? Yeah! Party time when I hit 25,000, sez I. I shall bake something with much butter in.

Life is feeling short. Isn’t it weird how days can seem to last forever, sometimes even hours (see Star Wars: The Clone Wars), but then life as a whole appears so fragile. My grandma is 92. She’s precious. Lately, she’s been more and more fuzzy around the edges – not remembering some grandkids (mine are

I get to give a 3-5 minute thingy at a Mother’s Day fiesta next Saturday night. If you’re planning to be there, skip this post. Here’s what I think I’m going to say. When Moses was shepherding his father-in-law’s flocks, he saw a bush on fire, flaming but not being consumed. He found that a

We made it once again to May. Not that you thought we’d get stuck in April, but you never know… Okay – painful family moment last night. We were going to play a game with our kids (Catch Phrase, because everyone can do it) but Kid 4 really, really wanted everyone to experience the DVD

… And still not understand much of anything they say? Several examples are coming to mind right now, including multiple college roommates, parents, siblings, a husband and several children. I’m stumbling onto a breakthrough here… It’s possible that I’m a bad communicator. Shoot. I thought for a long time that I was a literate, articulate,

Talking about writing is right up there on my list of Great Fun. It’s maybe neck-and-neck with actually doing good writing. I am so lucky to have a little group to write and talk with. Food will be eaten. Words will be read and pondered and nudged and improved. Fun will be had. (And all

(Part 2 of my reaction to Laurie Halse Anderson’s SPEAK) Wow. Just wow. It was stunning, and sad, and a little funny, and totally non-gratuitous. I hope all my kids read it (when they’re 14) and want to talk to me about it. There is a whole lot of obsessive teen angst-ing in YA lit