I Wonder What They Think…

I seldom talk about the details of my fiction writing here because a) I don’t want to bore people to death and b) I’m afraid you’ll all think I’ve gone round the twist.   But today that’s what’s on my head, so that’s what’s getting written about.   Written about instead of written.  Poor Baughmans. [...]

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Testing My Own Patience

Just so you know, I took my drugs at 1:30am Tuesday and have spent the last 2 days largely sleeping or reading.   That much reading time got me to the end of the 3rd book in Song Of Ice And Fire. I’m stopping there. Yes, I know there’s a fourth book.  I even own [...]

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Talk To Me About Robert Jordan

Terry Brooks turned me off fantasy when I was in my early teen years.   Then Marion Zimmer Bradley’s dreadful book about the women of the Arthurian legends sealed the coffin of my interest in fantasy. Now, though, thanks to A Song Of Ice And Fire, I’m now looking to read more of it.   [...]

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Those Characters I Crush On

Yesterday I mentioned the various fictional men with whom I’ve fallen a bit in love. It was by no means a comprehensive list, but it was a good start. A friend of mine wants to know what books all those wonderful, sexy, funny, smart, decent men are from. Good Question! Great Blog Topic for a [...]

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Istanbul Was Constantinople

Yesterday we went for lunch at a place that sells gourmet hot dogs. The food is very good and reasonably priced. That means the restaurant was crowded and we ended up at an outdoor table next to a nice family of two parents and three kids who were in their late teens and early 20s. [...]

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The Baby Is Jealous

Not everyone is happy about my resumption of knitting. Gob stared malevolently at my work all night Saturday and most of Sunday evening.  When I came back up to the bonus room after doing some laundry, this is what I found. I’ve spent 2 hours so far untangling it.  So far.

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Yippee

In some ways it’s kind of weird how much of an effect Jason [and Erin, actually] have had on my life in the last month. For people who live several states away, whom we have only seen in person one time, they sure have had a lot to do with what I do during the [...]

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God Is Punishing Pakistan For Our Sins (?)

Ugh. Sorry for putting up two posts in one day. Sorry also to my sadly neglected fiction work for interrupting you to be distracted. But a blog that I recently started following has this to say: we need to be praying for God to use this tragedy for His purposes, for His glory. Could this [...]

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Looking For God

I just came across something where a person talked about how she was looking for God and the various places she thought she could go to find Him. (Her words..not mine.) Something about it didn’t sit well with me, and I’m still trying to figure out what. But maybe it’s that when I read a [...]

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Writers, Readers, People Who Speak English…Help Me.

I’ve been reading furiously and writing furiously. The great thing about deciding to delve into the long-untapped waters of Sci-Fi and Fantasy is that now I can read WHILE I’m writing my own stuff without being too worried about crosspollination. So I don’t feel so lame. Anyway, one of the things I’ve read a lot [...]

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