The Older We Get
“When I was a child, I thought as a child.” Remember thinking our parents had it easy? They could sleep late if they wanted to, could eat whatever they wanted, and didn’t have any worries, any pressures. We couldn’t wait to grow up. I had a sheltered childhood. My parents had great confidence in me, […]
Giving Credit
My son, who is as focused on music as I am on writing, chastises me about not knowing what singers are in which band, who wrote or performed my favorite music, and other things like that. I am lucky to remember the NAME of the song, much less all that other information. I am purely […]
Just For Fun Friday 08/23/13
Fun Fact - Did you know there’s a chapter missing from the published version of The Looking Glass? Apparently, at the end of the chapter about the White Knight, Alice was to have grabbed a woman’s wig instead of the goat’s beard, which would have led to the missing chapter (called A Wasp in a Wig). […]
Shrink Me II
As Alice discovered, it’s all about space. In this e-publishing era, each letter, space, and punctuation mark is a byte. And bytes are space. That’s why the old rule – two spaces at the beginning of a sentence – has been thrown out. Now it’s one space everywhere. And if they (those invisible editors) could find […]
Facing our Fears
A few years ago, the week of Memorial Day, my mother and I took a vacation to New Mexico. As we approached Taos through the mountains, we were passed by small groups of bikers. Mom was very nervous and made sure the doors were locked, and gathered herself up in her seat like a turtle […]
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