An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
My main character in World of Warcraft hit level 90 and summoned herself a new demon!
Restart World of Warcraft, stay up until 5am… yeah… that seems about right.
I’m going to be entirely off the grid — no internet, no electricity — for much of this weekend. I think I’ll bring a notebook and try to figure out outlines for a furry ghostbuster novel and a cats with magical mutant powers novel.
The four-year-old, speaking of a creek we found: “I want to talk to the water privately.
I told him I was going to stay here, but he could whisper to it. So he is.
Me: “What did you tell it?”
Four: “A secret!” Continue reading “Talking to Creeks, Buying Praying Mantises, and Moving Boxes”
–arrange toys around my computer
–scroll through twitter
–google galaxies
–tweet about googling galaxies
–describe a planet as being like a honeydew melon bobbing on the ocean
That’s a good amount of work, right? Continue reading “My writing progress so far tonight:”
Another one for the list of things I should have never had to say: “No cars on the piano!” To be filed with, “Don’t kick your grandmother,” and “Don’t stand on the piano!” The younger child has a thing for trying to destroy the piano.
And before I finished posting, he managed to elicit, “No cars on the windows!”
Me: Do you have any homework tonight?
10-yr-old: I have to watch Little Shop of Horrors.
Me, to myself: This seems unlikely…
Me, out loud: Perfect, let me help you with that.
The ten-year-old is pitching me her idea of mashing up Annie and Little Shop of Horrors. It sounds amazing. Continue reading “Little Shop of Horrors”
Apparently, today is Unicorn Day. So here’s a fresh hot cup of unicorn stories, newly available here at Deep Sky Anchor:
And if you need some more, we do have a few stories that have been rattling around the site a bit longer:
Enjoy!
And Happy Unicorn Day!
At kindergarten orientation, they explained if you didn’t get your kid vaccinated, you had to give them a special form & they sounded way too okay with it. So I called out, “BUT YOU SHOULD GET YOUR KIDS VACCINATED.” And then spent the rest of the event all shaky. Continue reading “Vaccines, Bumper Stickers, Oklahoma”
My big orange Sheltie doesn’t know a lot of commands, but somehow he’s learned one super command — “Pup pup!” As far as I can tell, what “Pup pup!” means to him is, “Anticipate what I want right now and do it!” Bizarrely, it’s effective in a wide range of situations.
And this is the dog who spent a year barking at an empty wall before realizing we’d moved the printer.
There are blankets and pillows all over the floor, and the kids are scooting about on office chairs… I have mixed feelings about having shown the hot lava episode of Community to them.
A Wrinkle In Time (’18) is glorious.
I, Tonya is fascinating, heartbreaking, and dizzying. If you wrote fictional characters like that, no one would believe them.