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Category: childhood
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The God’s Wolfling: Snippet 7
Linn’s first meeting with Manannan Mac’Lir, who is in exile from his beloved island, and plagued with problems that have arisen in his millenia-long absence. Linn is overwhelmed, caught up in the magic she firmly doesn’t believe in, and swept into a joyful celebration that is headier than any mortal wine… I rarely do this,…
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Daydreaming
Which is another way of saying this is a catch-all post. My schedule for today is homework, more homework, work-work, possible lunch with friends (yay!), and if that happens and I have my homework done, I get to go shoot butterflies. Yes, I know you need a teeny-tiny calibre to shoot butterflies… you all are…
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The God’s Wolfling: Snippet 6
The end is near… I can’t believe how fast time is flying, and this book’s launch date is looming ever nearer. I’m so not ready. But I will be, I promise. Even if print editions are a week late (I say that with every launch, don’t I?). Vulcan’s Kittens, book one in the Children of…
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The God’s Wolfling: Snippet 4
Ok, I am going to be at LibertyCon, or at least in Chattanooga, some time today. So when you read this, I’m traveling. I started to put up this snippet and realised it is very short… so I will add some more. I’m working on something entirely different right now, but I will be editing…
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Read Fairy Tales
The full quote: “Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood…
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Bubble Warp
No, that’s not a typo. You keep a person in a bubble, you’re going to warp them, physically and emotionally. Bubble wrap, the other spelling, is also an apt metaphor for over-protection. Mirror-posted at According to Hoyt I was working at an indoor playground this weekend, and in between the mad rush of what I…
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Perpetual Adolescence
I wrote a paper for Human Growth and Development close to two years ago now, and it came immediately to mind when the latest example of childishness popped up on the internet. Larry Correia delivers a brilliant fisking of the article. I really should expand on this paper, I didn’t even touch on the neural…
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The Rule of Fives
Mirror-posted at Mad Genius Club today. I found a post on Passive Voice about the Five Finger Rule, which I wasn’t familiar with. I had a good chuckle over his one-finger salute of it, and read the comments for further insight. In the comments, Will Entrekin came up with a lovely rebuttal, and one I…
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Beautiful America: Merry Christmas!
Christmas is coming fast, and there is snow on the ground, but the house is dry and warm, so I am happy. Doesn’t take much to make me happy. More photos of kids, baking, charlie-brown trees, and possibly cats, this week. Growing up we never had trees at our house, so I had to go…
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Beautiful America: Holiday Greetings
I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks thinking about Christmases with family, and pictures of this time of year will appear here – some of them very much family shots. But I love my kids, and they are beautiful! Yes, yes, I’m biased. I think some of you will enjoy it, anyway. A…
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Beautiful America: Thanksgiving
I give thanks for so many things. The beauty that surrounds me daily, my children, my loved ones, the opportunity to go back to school. I won’t be cooking a big meal this year, as there are only two of us to eat it, but I will be remembering the ones I have lovingly prepared…
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Lexile and Reading
My post over at Mad Genius Club this morning is about reading levels, books, and how complex literature can be without using big words and lengthy sentences.