Tag: parenting

  • Bad Days

    I’ve been having a run of bad days that have been ceaselessly piling up on top of each other. I can track the most recent and notable ones back to about October 2016, and the bigger, even more obvious ones indicating something was not on the level at about February 2016, but the discreet events…

  • Looking at How I’m Going to Get There

    One of my personal self-publishing heroes is Kristine Kathryn Rusch. If you haven’t read her posts, especially her Wednesday Business Musings, you are seriously missing out. (I would donate or do the Patreon thing to support her if I could, by my own financial demands are such that I can’t at this moment in time.…

  • An IWSG Post

    Okay, yes, I’m late. I know. I thought things would calm down when my kids went back to school, but that isn’t happening and it’s really frustrating and BLARGH! So I’m going to take a cheat and use the question posed on the ISWG site for today’s posting. November 2 Question: What is your favorite…

  • Time – an IWSG Post

    There’s all these platitudes about time – use your time wisely; time is only a delusion of artificially imposed measurements so our pathetic brains can try to comprehend it; we only need to decide what to do with the time given to us; time … I could go on, but that would take time. The…

  • One of the Reasons I Write is to Make My Life Sound More Interesting

    Take, for example, my first real crime. The first time I did it and got away with it. The lessons I learned and the sordid path it started me down since then. How thievery led to murder. It all started out innocently enough: A toy here, a toy there. Picking up after the kids and…

  • School Year Resolutions – An IWSG Post

    If you have children and you interact with them a great deal during the summer (Please don’t ask me how many times I’ve seen The Nightmare Before Christmas in the last 3 months. Please don’t. I’ll cry.), then I know you are pantingly anxious for school to start. Like you’ve created your own countdown calendar…