*sees the four-year-old taking the Furby outside*
“Wait…”
*First thought: Furby is not an outside toy.*
*Second thought: why would I protect that noisy thing from harm?*
“Proceed.”
Author: marylowd
Grateful-List
As part of her plan to have a Christmas-themed birthday party next month, the nine-year-old is celebrating Thanksgiving today.
Some highlights from her grateful-list:
1) Parents
2) Grandma
3) Doctor Who Continue reading “Grateful-List”
Which Planet
Three-year-old: “Is this Earth?”
Me: “Yes, we’re on Earth.”
Three-year-old: “Oh! Then which planet is my school on?”
X-Men: The Last Stand
The nine-year-old, speaking of Jean Grey in X-Men: Last Stand: “If I had her powers, I could make pancakes with my mind.”
Rewatched X-Men: The Last Stand for the first time in a decade, and know what? That is a perfectly fine, super fun movie.
I love the X-Men movies.
Chicken Argument
Bizarre fights the children get into…
Nine-year-old: “If we got five chickens–“
Three-year-old with extreme petulance: “I only want four chickens!” Continue reading “Chicken Argument”
Natural Inspiration
I went for a walk and encountered a hundred-some baby geese in a field of mint.
Whenever the three-year-old finds feathers, he chases down every bird he can find, trying to give them back.
Head
The nine-year-old on the Monkees movie: “You remember when we watched Head? Ever since then I’ve known what I want to do is fill the world with more Heads.”
She’s working on a script titled “I am a Sandwich.”
Also, “Never Ending Smoothie.”
The Hand-Havers
by Mary E. Lowd
Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2014
A wise parent would never leave her one-handed child alone with a six-handed bachelor. A relationship between such unequals would only lead to heartbreak, or worse. Neither of Delundia’s parents, however, was especially wise. They’d met, married, and mated at the foolish young times after first-birth for Londe and second-birth for Arendell, soon leaving them with two young babies and only three hands between them. Continue reading “The Hand-Havers”
Distracting Cartoons, Tragic Musicals, Spider-Man, and Unicorns
Test of concentration: can I tune out Ghostbusters cartoons well enough to focus on my squirrel adventure novel? Let’s find out!
Test result: 380 words, bringing the project up over 24k total. So, yes! If I’m feeling determined enough! Continue reading “Distracting Cartoons, Tragic Musicals, Spider-Man, and Unicorns”
The Two Kinds of Dog
Two of my dogs got haircuts — one looks like a puppy before her mane came in; the other transformed from a mop into a tiny dark-eyed demon.