Please help me out here. Someone in my family thinks that his tradition is overwhelmingly practiced across America, and someone else in my family thinks that her tradition is more common and awesome. So: do you open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? I will reveal the less awesome Christmas tradition practicer…Continue Reading
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Pieces of Advice(s)
Tip #1 If you like to go thrifting, and your hunting and pecking takes you to the book section, which is just across from the public bathroom, take a deep breath about five minutes prior and hold it for the duration of your stay. In case of pass-out, be sure to wear a med alert…Continue Reading
Stocking Stuffer Winners!
Lex won the Kookeys! FADKOG won the Tracksters! That’s all I got today. Seriously. You’re lucky you got the exclamation points.
In the Spirit
I do this thing where I’m sure I’m not doing enough for the kids and so rope The Rock into nefarious schemes to make me feel more parenty. This past weekend, I thought we should be doing more holiday things, so I scanned the Internet and found a community theater production in a quasi-questionable…Continue Reading
PROMPTuesday #35: The Secret
(One more day for the Stocking Stuff Giveaway!) It’s over, baby. ********************************************************************************** I apologize for delaying publication of this week’s PROMPTuesday. Thank you for the notes threatening me with non-specific injury to my person if I didn’t get on the stick. It’s just that I needed to know someone loved me. I know, I…Continue Reading
The Bigger Better Deal*
The Stocking Stuffer Giveaway is alive and kicking! Enter here! (It’s not a pony.) *********************************************************************************** I am such a tool. All month long I’ve seen commercial after commercial promoting this princess and that doll house and this ‘Lil Pony and that Easy Bake Oven and this pooping baby and that Scooby Doo Mystery Game.…Continue Reading
How To Write
Instead of reading this, why don’t you enter my giveaway? I’d erase this post altogether, but that would be in direct opposition to my Tip #1 included below, in the midst of this drivel I’d rather you ignore. How to write. I ask myself this question almost every day. Because I overthink, and because…Continue Reading
Stocking Stuffer Giveaway
Still need to fill up your kids’ stockings? Let me help. Because I’m very solicitous and hospitable like that. I’m giving away two Kookeys and two Tracksters, which are perfectly-sized for Christmas stockings. Unless you bought tiny stockings. Which in this economy, who could blame you. I hope you win these prizes then. …Continue Reading
Full Circle
The Dream I’d applied cucumber-cranberry mask to my eyebags and when I looked in the mirror, I happily saw my bags had retracted so completely that they were concave, as if someone had scooped my eyebags out with a teaspoon. It WAS a dream, but still, I should have been alarmed, right? To my credit,…Continue Reading
Go Barrie!
I loved meeting kidlit author Barrie Summy Tuesday night at Warwick’s Book Store. Her new middle grade book, I So Don’t Do Mysteries, launched just that day and I wanted to come out and give my congratulations. The thing is? I just found Barrie online (she blogs too) (thanks for the tip, Vodka…Continue Reading
And to All a Bellicose Night
The crank cloud has not yet lifted, and it’s heavy with a chance of rain. i’ve been so pissy that it’s in complete opposition to all that is good about the season. I’ve even desecrated the cheerfulness of “Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” It went something like this* (please look away if you are a good…Continue Reading
Barrie Summy’s New Book
I found a new friend in the Blogosphere (Shh. She doesn’t know yet). She’s a San Diego author who just (JUST! It comes out today!) had her middle grade mystery novel published. Her name is Barrie Summy, the book is I So Don’t Do Mysteries, and she is my new role model (Shh. She doesn’t…Continue Reading
