Remember this post? Well, the story of my little go-getter continues! Here is the original post again, followed by an update: “Would you be more comfortable if I left, or would you like me to stay here with you?” I asked. A seemingly simple question, yet her pause and her nervous lip-biting betrayed her [...]
The results are in. The decision is final. The cats of the clan have been left gutted on the floor of the arena, The Mockingjay the clear victor. Yep, move over Firestar. Surrender, Graystripe. Be gone, Leafpool. Make way for Katniss Everdeen. Finally, after years of obsession with everything Warrior related, Squirt is moving on [...]
Blogiversary Week continues… Books. I love ‘em. I love the way they look, displayed on my many shelves. I love the feel of one in my hands and the sound of the pages turning. I love ignoring my To Do List in favor of lounging on the couch in pajamas, reading as long as the [...]
Blogiversary Week continues. I take a look at the numbers: 12 months of writing and 163 blog posts. That is more than 13 posts a month. Not too bad. Of those posts, 50 of them were given the tag “children”. Yep. That just about sums it up: I write about my children. Yes, there are [...]
Who was Theodora of Constantinople? No, she was not a perfectly coiffed princess in a recent Disney film (which was, admittedly, my first thought). She was not the exquisitely beautiful, sweetly innocent, charmingly naive young thing of fairy tales, surrounded by doting mice and tittering blue birds. According to Stella Duffy in her book Theodora, this [...]
