I embarrassed my two oldest daughters Saturday while we were shopping at the mall. My middle daughter is going on vacation with her grandparents and needed some clothes for the trip. She had a gift card to a certain teeny-bopper store (read the title of this post and you’ll know which one I’m talking about), so we stopped in to see if they had anything in the price range of the gift card. Everything about this store goes against the grain of who I am and who I want my daughters to be. However, I also try to be frugal and that gift card was “going to waste” at the bottom of my purse, so . . . in we went. Read more »
Why the apology? Back on June 14, 2009, I wrote a blog about recently joining Facebook and Twitter. (If you’re interested, you can access it by scrolling down and clicking on June 2009.) Looking back on it, I was rather snarky about the whole venture. Now that I am totally immersed in the social networking culture, I have an entirely different attitude; therefore, I owe you all an apology for being so cynical about joining these two sites. I ultimately started using these networks to promote my writing, but now I find that I use each one in a different way. Read more »
Like many people this holiday season, I went to see the movie Sherlock Holmes. I have been a fan since I first read Hound of the Baskervilles when I was in the sixth grade. I loved watching the old movies as well, especially the ones with Basil Rathbone. Many Holmes purists don’t like Guy Ritchie’s (the director) or Robert Downey, Jr.’s (Holmes) take on the infamous detective. However, their movie helped me see something in Holmes that I hadn’t seen before. Sherlock Holmes is the original superhero.
I know after reading that last statement many of you are wondering how I could say Holmes is a superhero when he’s nothing like Superman, who is thought to be the first comic book superhero. I would answer: isn’t Holmes the original “superman?” After consulting several dictionaries, I found that the consensus of the definition of a superhero is a fictional character with extraordinary or superhuman powers. For the most part, these “extraordinary or superhuman powers” have been translated as physical strength and invincibility. However, adhering to the definition of superhero, Holmes definitely has “extraordinary powers” that could be seen as “superhuman” at times. Read more »
For those of you who are not writers, November is NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a novel or 50,000 words (which is not actually a novel) in one month. The purpose is to spark creativity by forcing people to write intensely. There’s no time to pretty it up. You’ve got to right, man! If you already have a novel in progress, some people use NaNoWriMo to finish their novels.
Every November I try to participate, but then life, as usual, gets in the way, and I don’t end up finishing. This year I took a different approach. I didn’t try to write intensely; I just tried to write. I have a novel I’ve been working on for ummm… Okay, longer than I’d like to admit. One reason why it has taken me so long is that I’ve been a bit stumped about which way to take the characters and how to move the plot along. Some people might say scrap it and start over, but I’m 47,000+ words in. I’m as invested in this novel as the government is in AIG. Read more »
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June 16, 2010 9:43 am | 
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