Newsflash!

I could show you this: or this: or this: or this: or this:   or this:   Or I could just jump up and down shouting "I WON! I WON! I WON!!!" Because I did it.  I actually wrote over 50,000 words all under my own steam.  In under a month.  Best of all, I'm still going.  ...

Today I won't be giving thanks.  Boo hiss n'all that, I can take it.  Today is just another normal day.  Get up, go to work, force yourself past Starbucks without getting the coffee you so desperately crave because you definitely overdosed yesterday and don't want to feel like that two ...

Sky Full of Butterflies

          "I suppose you wish to tell your mother then?"           "Please" she said, asking his permission.  She bit her lip, hoping he would say yes.             "In the morning."           She hugged him tightly and retreated to her room.  She hadn't slept for days and was starting to tire.  As she slid under the covers of her bed she ...

The Learning Curve

The boy is four.  He started big school in September.  Every night he gets homework. Hold up there.  Homework?  For a four year old?  Yeah, that's what I thought.  I was lucky (or should that be unlucky?) if I had much in the way of homework at the age of ten.  ...

The Own-Up Challenge

Over the past few weeks I've been carefully watching my statistics.  I've not been looking at numbers, or what you're here for (because honestly, I don't care to know how "dr. who" pink shoes or chan pie gnon brought you over here).  What I've been interested in is where you're coming ...