An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I’ve been watching the BBC show “Ghosts,” and it’s absolutely charming. It has a kind of similar off-beat, quirky humor to “What We Do in the Shadows,” except about ghosts instead of vampires.
Highly, highly recommended. Continue reading “Offbeat Ghosts and Vampires”
My mom bought a this fake tree after figuring out I was allergic to Christmas trees. (They’re filled with mold.) My dad objected strenuously to us switching to a fake tree. But I finally stopped spending the whole of December sick, turning into lingering bronchitis through the spring.
One year, we visited Jewish friends for a couple days around Christmas, and my eternal winter cold lifted. My mom put that puzzle piece together with the fact that I always perked up on Christmas Eve at Grandma’s house — which had a fake tree. Continue reading “Fake Christmas Trees”
The 14-year-old: “My English teacher said I didn’t engage enough with the story we read based on one question I answered on a quiz. I’ll never be able to do literary analysis!”
Also 14: “Rudolph is a neurodivergent found family story. Let me list all my evidence…”
Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas is exactly as spectacular as the rest of the show. Exactly what it should be.
I hope it gets renewed for another season, but if it doesn’t, the Christmas special gave it a much better end than it would have had without it.
Me to my kid: “It makes sense to take a break and give yourself time to rest rather than pushing yourself to be in every play the children’s theater puts on.”
Me to myself: “Now, tell me again why you didn’t write a novel last month? ‘Cause, I really think you could have.” Continue reading “Stray Parenting and Writing Thoughts”
Avery still doesn’t get it. If the spirit of Christmas involves paying attention to an inanimate monstrosity of a decorated tree instead of HER, then she wants none of it.
She is SO MUCH prettier than a Christmas tree. And she can do TRICKS.
The Doctor to a weeping angel: “My friends are never lost.”
Um… Continue reading “Tidbits about Doctor Who & Lost In Space”
That feeling when you’re just about to declare yourself finished with edits on a book… only to stumble across a final note saying, “Search for the word ‘that,’ and remove as many as you can.”
Alas, this is not the first time THAT this has happened to me. Continue reading “That, Again”
It’s mediocre Christmas movie season!
So far, Pride & Prejudice & Mistletoe doesn’t noticeably have anything to do with Pride & Prejudice except for a few names sprinkled randomly throughout.
Danica McKeller’s presence in a Christmas movie, though, seems to be a good sign.
In spite of its many problems (too much realism), my spouse has managed to get me hooked on Stardew Valley. And the differences in how the two of us play are very revealing.
He has made everyone in town like him; I have killed enough monsters that I can wear a creepy bone mask.