“After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.“ Star Trek’s Spock Humans want things. We want to travel and have new experiences. We want to be loved. We want to be successful and have good self-esteem. [...]
Archive for March, 2009
25 Mar
Thinking outside the traditional writer’s box
There’s a big debate going on over at Pennwriters right now between those who have been published traditionally and those who aren’t about which writers “should” do. The old guard insists that if you want to write novels you must get them to one of the five big houses, get the publicity machine and promotion. [...]
23 Mar
Spring on the horizon
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. __ Alfred Austin Despite the recent turmoil, life goes on. In this neck of the woods, of course, one of the most exciting things is life! Finally, after all those frozen brown and gray months, we’ve got crocuses, green tulip leaves peeking out [...]
20 Mar
Tunnel vision
Our life with autism has been steadily heading toward a dark tunnel, and I’m afraid the train is about to arrive. While Little Miss seemed to be coming along so well up till this year, fourth grade has made it clear that she has real issues I’ve written off to language delays or other “fixable” [...]
17 Mar
Who you gonna call?
“And Reason kens he herits in/A haunted house. Tenants unknown Assert their squalid lease of sin/ With earlier title than his own.” * I’ve said before we thought our house was haunted. We’ve been told that a lady died years ago in our yard, out back in the berry patch, a natural death, apparently, but [...]
15 Mar
Tag–you’re it!
Every once in awhile, when I’m examining this blog, to see what I have to offer, to determine what else I could add to make the site more useful, I read over my tag cloud. I know that WordPress assigns the size of the words depending on how often you use the tags. So clearly [...]
7 Mar
Getting through hard times
My father is in his 70s, and moved to our town about 15 years ago, having retired at the age of 45. He had some investments and has been very frugal for years, making it possible for him to live on a very modest income. Of course, he lived through the Great Depression– he knows [...]
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