There are some who, to varying degrees, suggest eliminating being verbs from your prose. Since being is such a pivotal part of our language, a building block really, why would anyone suggest such a thing? This is one of those “so-called rules of writing” that I mentioned in a previous article. In other words, there […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
New Year’s Resolutions
I’ll just be straight up about this one — I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. I never have. The idea that, “This year will be different. This is the year I’ll make a change.” doesn’t seem to be the right attitude for real change. And in fact, the vast majority of New Year’s Resolutions are […]
Christmas
Christmas is so different now that I’m a mom. A lot of people say that Christmas is for kids, and I think they’re wrong. It’s for adults with kids. Drake is thirteen months old now and I thought he might not be quite old enough to really get into Christmas, but he proved me wrong. […]
Babylon 5
My sincere apologies for failing to keep this blog up over the past few weeks. First it was birthday and Thanksgiving, and then my son got sick for the first time in his young life. Unfortunately, I was sick at the same time. (No sick time for mommies!) After that, I think I just had […]
Shadow of the Giant
I just finished reading “Shadow of the Giant” by Orson Scott Card. This is the fourth book in the “Ender’s Shadow” line, which have been following Bean and the other battle school graduates who stayed behind on Earth. I had hoped that it would be the final book, but it does not seem to have […]
When oh when will it come out?
I had to take September 15th off my front page as the tentative release date for the e-book and at the moment, I don’t have a new release date at all (tentative or otherwise). I am told that a copy editor is brushing off the grammar and spelling errors and that an artist is working […]