On the left side of the sanity bell curve
What’s pretty sad is I just now realized I haven’t talked about the Owlsome Readers program that’s currently in full swing at Cara and Ollie’s school. The reason this is so sad? I’m the Publicity Chair/Coordinator for the whole shebang. Dang it! Here’s a snippet (which I wrote) of the official press release for the program:… Continue reading 37 First Grader Books For Valentine’s Day
Have you ever had a friend ask you to read their book and get maybe just a twinge of dread? No? Just me? Liar. It’s not that I necessarily expect the book to suck. My writer friends are pretty awesome writers so I expect what they send me to be at least decent. Maybe even awesome. But that dread?… Continue reading Aloha Also Means Goodbye Book Review
WARNING! This post contains spoilers, quotes from The Silver Linings Playbook book and I discuss the movie in detail. If you haven’t read the book and/or seen the movie and you don’t want to know what’s gonna happen, I suggest you go read other awesome things I’ve written. For instance, you might check out “My… Continue reading Seven Gripes About the Differences Between The Silver Linings Playbook Book and Movie
I started The Fault in Our Stars last night. I stayed up until 3 am and finally drifted off to sleep on a wet pillow. Tucker and I have been longtime fans of John Green since we first discovered the YouTube channel he has with his brother Hank. Anyway, I was telling Tucker how I’m… Continue reading Are the Only Good Writers the Writers Whose Work Evolves? Let’s Discuss.
Facebook is everywhere now and just about everyone I know “in real life” has taken the plunge and signed up–including my mom and father in law [Hi, guys!]. Though it’s become this integral part of most of our lives, there’s always more to learn. Things I bet you didn’t even know you wanted to know–like… Continue reading Facebook All-In-One for Dummies Review
2012 has come to a close and now we’re on to 2013. I can vividly remember it being 1990. I feel quite old all of a sudden. We’ve been in the house a year now. Cara started school. Tucker’s almost done with his. I got offered a job. I found my biological mother and siblings.… Continue reading My Favorite Posts on Taste Like Crazy from 2012
OK. Fine. I’m depressed. [I got distracted after I wrote that and wandered around the internet before remembering I was supposed to be writing something over here. Oops.] Remember when I wrote that one thing about going off my meds? Well, I did and things were pretty much the way they had been and so… Continue reading I’m Depressed Maybe Possibly Or Not
From my Facebook page this morning: After the millionth surgery on the Keurig, it’s dead to me. Tried to make coffee on the stove in a pan. Fail. Don’t be taken in by the yummy looking coffee; this tastes like dirty water. NaNoWriMo and I have broken up. I’m bummed I’m not going to complete… Continue reading Crappy Coffee and Shooting
Today is the last day of Cara being five. This is the bag Mom bought Cara for her birthday tomorrow. Cara has decided she’s going to use the bag as her backpack. Tomorrow is her party; we’re having it at the local hands-on science center. We’re paying for it but the package includes the cake… Continue reading Happy Last Day of Being Five, Cara!
Today was the first day of NaNoWrimo and I’m pretty sure I done good. I met my writing goal for the day–2k words–and identified a bunch of holes I missed. Like three important characters that didn’t have names and two organizations that also didn’t have names. I fixed the people naming issue but the organizations… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Day One Halloween and the Halloween Wreath
I’ve been sitting on almost 30,000 words of a book for the past year. I know I need to go back in and add some stuff to the beginning and I’m lazy and then have a tendency to edit because I feel I need to reread what I have written so I’m familiar with the… Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2012: Let’s Write and Be Awesome
I don’t remember ever reading Where the Wild Things Are [affiliate link] when I was little but it’s one of those books you’re supposed to read so I bought it for Cara. I like the book but listening to Christopher Walken read it makes me love it.
