When someone says something you know to be blatantly wrong, there are different ways to react…
—roll your eyes
—smile politely and move on
—explain your own position
Or if you really respect them… Continue reading “Actual Respect”
Author: marylowd
Tidbits from a Five-Day Weekend
It’s hard to get any writing done while the kids have a five day weekend.
The twelve-year-old, talking about Ian Madison Keller’s books: Continue reading “Tidbits from a Five-Day Weekend”
Space Opera
“I agreed to spaceships and aliens and the possible end of life on Earth. I did not agree to tolerate talking cats. This is too much. It’s too mad. It’s out of genre. Undo it immediately!””
— Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
That’s right, people. This is not a drill. SPACE OPERA by Catherynne M. Valente is FURRY. Continue reading “Space Opera”
Playing Games with Kids…
Me: It’s your turn…
6-yr-old: Where’s my shoe? (disappears under table)
Me: Did you want to take your turn?
6: I want all my money in ones (takes a ridiculous stack of poker chips & promptly spills them all over the board, knocking over everything)
Shaking Down the Tooth Fairy
The six-year-old has a real knack for losing teeth right as we’re sending them to bed, on nights when we’ve already let them stay up unusually late, and then insisting on elaborately decorating the envelope we put the tooth in.
Tonight, as he started to write “I love the money and stickers” on the envelope, he realized that since he didn’t have them yet, it would make more sense to change it to “I’d like $500.”
Ambitious little thing.
Bedtime Stories
I’ve started listening to Nothing Much Happens stories to help me fall asleep at night. They’re lovely and full of sensory details that help lull my brain into settling down and letting go of consciousness. Highly recommended. https://www.nothingmuchhappens.com/
Cocoa and Star Wars
Me, trying to decide which movie to watch tonight: “Coco or Star Wars?”
Six-year-old: “Cocoa with Star Wars? We can drink cocoa and watch Star Wars???” Continue reading “Cocoa and Star Wars”
Tortoise Who
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Exploring New Places, July 2018
By the concrete steps up to the footbridge over Dixon Creek, a tortoise shell phased in and out of existence, accompanied by a strangely cheerful wheezing sound.
Rosie the mouse was too busy running away from a cat to notice. The cat, a gray tabby named Shreddy, was having too much fun to care. Continue reading “Tortoise Who”
Different NaNo
According to my schedule, I’m a full month ahead on the novel I’m writing, so I’ve decided that the skill I’m going to focus on improving for #NaNoWriMo is being healthy about my writing — continuing to make, ideally, daily progress, but at whatever pace makes me happiest.
Better than Daylight Saving Time
I’m not a fan of “spring forward,” when everything starts an hour earlier in the morning, but the free hour for “fall back” is awesome, so here’s my plan:
We get an extra hour in the middle of every Saturday night, & days just rotate slowly forward.