A Day For Celebration

In Indiana you can get a Learner’s Permit when you’re 15. Or 15 1/2. (Can’t believe I don’t remember a fact that was once something my life revolved around.) If you take Driver’s Education and pass, then you don’t have to take a road test for your license once you turn 16. To shorten a [...]

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Thank You, Governor Haslam

You have done a courageous thing, and I think you aren’t getting enough credit for it. I am here in my home in Hermitage, a home for which I’ve worked and saved. I find the Occupy Wall Street protests to be directionless, odd and, at times a little creepy. The franchise protests in cities across [...]

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100% Childfree

There are a million things in my head right now, and that head was up all night. I’m tempted to not write at all, but that’s when the terrorists win. I was looking at some photos people posted yesterday. The general theme is to write your personal hard-luck story out on a piece of paper [...]

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And That’s How The High Command Took My Daddy From Me

The switch in my brain that trips the Pink Floyd Trigger has been flipped and now I’m spending the day just burning through the ::pauses to check::16.1 hours of Pink Floyd I have in iTunes. And oops, but it seems I’ve not yet re-burned The Wall–which was tragically lost when my old iMac kicked the [...]

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The Bittersweet Taste Of Baby-Flavoured Pepsi

There is an urban legend in its nascent stages floating around the Christian community. A Pro-Life group has seized upon a line item in PepsiCo.’s R&D budget, combed the patent filings for the company receiving said funds and discovered that the company in question–Senomyx–is using a line of stem cells in their research that includes [...]

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Does Anybody Here Remember Vera Lynn?

Weird day; lots of thoughts running through my head. I know that blogging is sometimes like baking cookies for Santa. You put all this effort into something that you know is going to go to waste. Unless some kindly soul takes pity on you. But I do get bothered when I see blogs that have [...]

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Being A Good Wife Is Hard Sometimes

So I needed something for dinner; the things I had on hand do not agree with my present state. We also needed dog food and some other essentials (God frowns on starving your pets for your own convenience.) So Husband valiantly offered to stop by Kroger on the way home. I hate having to do [...]

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The Walking Dead

Why am I watching a show about zombies? In the grand scheme of horror tropes, I find zombies to be even less interesting than those blue lights that hover in swamps. Whereas ghosts have all the creepy backstory (He Cannot Rest Until His Murderer Is Brought To Justice!) and even vampires have an aura of [...]

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Child Pornography In The Most Unexpected Places

I do tend to read a lot; if something captures my curiousity I usually run straight to the Internet. If websites there don’t answer all my questions the next stop is the Kindle Store, where I’ll get a book or three on the matter. This is usually a good thing, and I’ve managed to store [...]

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Those Who Can’t

Apparently there is a lot more money to be made in TEACHING writing to other people than there is in the actual writing of things. Because my facebook sidebar and email inbox are always chockablock with creative writing courses, seminars, workshops and self-published (irony much?) books on tips for finishing your novel, etc. It sort [...]

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