November 2009
2 posts
Haircuts
The girls got haircuts on Saturday. This is a more loaded statement than it may appear, on first reading. Allow me to elaborate.
I happen to be the kind of mom who is mellow about some things — like TV on Saturday mornings, and snacks before dinner — and uptight about others, like the way my children appear in public. My pet peeves include sleeves with snot trails on the arms,...
NaNoWhatNow?
I’m not writing because I’m too busy writing. To put it another way: The blog is taking a backseat at the moment to the novel. The novel which is bound to be bloody awful, mind you, because I am writing it in thirty days; see nanowrimo.org for the backstory on that. Still. I haven’t flexed my fiction-writing muscles in a looooong time, and I have to say, it feels pret-ty...