Because Dying Is Final & Going Crazy Holds No Appeal

One of the pieces of blogging ettiquette I’ve always been fuzzy on is how one best answers another blogger’s question. Generally a comment on his blog is the best thing, I think. The worst kind is a comment that says “as I say in my book, now on sale, I think….” and then links to [...]

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Look At Adam’s Tiny Penis!

It’s been a good fifteen or sixteen hours and I’m still miffed. At least it’s downgraded from blazingly furious after a few hours of stopover in fuming. A couple of days ago, Mike Duran asked his audience (which seems to include my audience more and more since I keep linking to him) if Flannery O’Connor [...]

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I Have Actual Tears On My Face

Ever since 2000 I have read all the Harry Potter books at least once a year. Most years twice. In the spring of 2009 I realised that it was no longer feasable to do anything heavier than Prisoner of Azkaban, and I had to look elsewhere for my mental comfort food. That wasn’t entirely bad, [...]

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For I Am Slow Of Speech

Here’s the thing. I know I’m a good writer. I know I’m a good storyteller of a certain kind of tale. That is, you won’t find me weaving tales of corporate espionage or pounding out one of those medical thrillers where people are given drugs that make them secretly turn into monkeys just to satisfy [...]

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God-Given Consequences

In the comments to my post on Saturday, one of my friends’ daughters left her heartfelt insight and opinion. I always love receiving heartfelt insight and opinion, whether I agree with it or not. If I agree with it I think “yeah! I’m not alone and may not be crazy after all.” If I don’t [...]

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Washing Machines And Birth Control Pills

On Twitter yesterday one of the Twits* said “forget birth control pills. The real liberator of women was the washing machine.” I may be paraphrasing slightly, but that was the gist. And I was irate. Irate enough to write a blog post on Saturday. Because I know the person who came up with this half-witty [...]

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Church Clip Show

If you were over at Mike Duran’s and part of the conversation about the drop-off in church attendance I made (a tacky) reference to my own past writings on the subject. Here they are. 1. My Problem With Youth Ministries Pretty much as described. 2. Why People Don’t Go To Church A few of the [...]

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Summer Card Buying Day #2

When Mother’s Day was here a few weeks ago I did my usual infertile woman thing and just pouted a bit. This in spite of the fact that I’ve got a perfectly wonderful mother. Now that Father’s Day has at last come rumbling along I therefore don’t feel right about gushing over the wonderfulness of [...]

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Pottermore…is…what?

Note to self. Write about not being able to write more often. You will have topics to write about all freakin’ day. Via Gawker via my husband we are alerted to movement on the Pottermore front. There was some buzz about it when Rowling registered the domain name two years ago, with everyone hoping it [...]

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The Help Movie Tie In

I know I already gutted out my 500 words for today. Then I opened my email. The nice thing about email is that it often reminds me of these little tirades I usually have only with myself. The ones I forget by the next time I make it to my desk. How fortunate you must [...]

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