Author: marylowd

Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the child started crying. I asked what was wrong, and she said, “I don’t like salad.” (There was not a salad in sight.)

I’ve written 20,000 words of “Learning to Live and Love In a Dog’s World.” Yay for NaNoWriMo!

I seem to be writing two novels simultaneously. And seriously considering starting a third…

…researching dog and cat breeds for Nanowrimo.‬

It is standard practice to approximate dogs as spheres.

Having finally watched all of Babylon 5, I’m finally qualified to hold the opinion that Deep Space Nine is better than Babylon 5. (And it is.)

I’ll even take it a step further: Farscape’s better too! And, possibly even Stargate: SG-1. Though, that wouldn’t be worth getting into a holy war over.  (Note added 14 years later, after watching all the way through Stargate a second time: yes, it would.)
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The problem with two-year-olds is they fall into the uncanny valley.

“My grandpa used to say cheddar cheese chunks and mathematical equations make a ladder.”

–animal wearing a blue hat in Reader Rabbit

I made Elaine alphabet pancakes for dinner. The batter held out through “U.”

Listening to TMBG is like mild, recreational brain damage. The five-minute version of watching a season of Farscape in a week.

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Oh my goodness, TMBG looks like a band of four Xanders. It’s like the episode of Buffy where Xander got split in two… except it happened again and the four of them formed a garage band. Soooo bizarre.