Category: Blog

I’m so furious about my kids’ school policies about “attendance.”

Both of my kids are bright, have no trouble keeping up at school, and are doing distance learning. Yet, because we took them on a week-long trip where they didn’t log into their classes, the school’s in an uproar.

We tried warning the school that we’d be traveling to a family member’s wedding, but we were told family trips weren’t a valid excuse for an absence. Continue reading “Attendance Policies, Broken Keyboards, and Hidden Mold”

I’ve never been woken up by the crowing of a rooster before…

Time to put ear plugs in and go back to sleep.

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Mango toast and fresh pineapple for breakfast. Continue reading “Last Day in Hawaii”

Turns out my sleep schedule wasn’t broken… I just switched to Hawaii time several months in advance of finding out I’d be coming to Hawaii.

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Snorkeling is magical. Continue reading “Just Another Day in Hawaii”

The 15-year-old this morning at a zip line place: *steps into thin air to ride a half mile zip line with zero fear*

The 15-year-old this evening at a restaurant, expressing genuine anxiety: “I’m just afraid they’ll bring the mushrooms out before I’m ready for them.”

Thor: Love and Thunder seems pretty good. It’s hard to be totally sure since I watched it on an airplane after getting up at crazy-still-dark-AM-early o’clock and was too tired to be awake but too uncomfortable to be asleep. Continue reading “Flying to Hawaii”

Just listenin’ to the Beach Boys’ song “Hawaii”… in Hawaii. No big deal.

This year Deep Sky Anchor took a big step forward and released 9 all new, original pieces of fiction and one non-fiction essay! If you’re reading for awards or just for fun, we’d love to have you read them.

Here are links to all our original releases from 2022, along with their genres, approximate word counts, and the month they were released: Continue reading “Awards Eligible Stories in 2022”

I finally finished watching the 5 hour walk-through of Star Trek: A Final Unity, the video game I couldn’t figure out how to beat as a kid. I’ve been watching this thing in five minute chunks here and there for months now.

It… uh… still seems like not a great video game.

My kids will be going on their first airplane flight tomorrow. The 15-year-old is worried about all kinds of contingencies like the plane crashing in the ocean. The 9-year-old? Not worried, in fact, feeling totally prepared because they’ve played a Roblox game about that.

Well, this is a new problem—the main character in the novella I’m writing has so many siblings that I lost track and accidentally added an extra one. So, I’ve had to go back and remove that sibling.

Fortunately, I caught it before that involved changing more than one sentence.