Tag: friends
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Home for a Day
Today we came home. There was champagne, and housewarming gifts – like that chair, thank you Jim Curtis! There were friends, and a dog and a cat, and a very excited Little Man. Toasting the house, and showing off all the fun little features. And finally, for a brief sweet moment in the hectic day,…
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LTUE AAR: Day 2 and 3
My friend and fellow troub…. er, author, James Young, challenged me a bit to finish this up in his look back at LTUE. It’s been, in my defense, a very busy couple of weeks. And in many ways I am still digesting everything I crammed into my head over the course of three short but…
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2019 LTUE AAR: Day 1
I arrived in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, and after acquiring a rental car – pro-tip, don’t rent from a company whose name you do not recognize, and whose location is far, far off airport. I would not have expected SLC to have a barrio, but I know where it is, now. I was very…
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Brain Fuel
I’m beginning the last day of being in the north of Texas with my friends. I’m both looking forward to home, my husband, my children, and my bed, in that order. Of course, hearing the news from home yesterday that schools were closed, the First Reader was working from home, there was a half-inch of…
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Traveling Lightly
I’m positively giddy at the moment. Not only am I taking a very special trip to Texas this week, but I’ve just finalized the arrangements for LibertyCon this coming summer… It’s going to be a great trip. You know, I’d planned to write a novel before LC came back around. That seems… unlikely. But it…
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Overwhelmed with Blessings
There are times you need to sit down and count them up, because it’s been simply overwhelming here at the Nut House, and I’ve been more focused on navigating my way through – and making sure my family is as stable as my hands can make them in their passage as well. The power of…
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Glurge and Human Emotion
I’m not sure of the true origin of the word glurge. I’m not even sure it’s a real word. I know that I first heard it used to describe the masses of emails that came with the early advent of the internet. Perhaps before the ‘net, it existed – I’m sure some did, since I…
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Indicium Dificile Part II
I’m back after a long and busy day that left me with no time (or, frankly, brains) to blog. Picking up where I left off with the final part of the Hippocrates quote, I’ll dive into what it is that makes judgement so difficult. As my book-loving dragon friend commented on the last post, it’s…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Breakup Counseling
Written by Sanford Begley Breakup counseling, should it be a thing? A young couple I know is going through a breakup. Not quite a divorce because they never married and were only together for a few years, but a hell of a lot more than the typical date for a few weeks or months and…
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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Friends
written by Sanford Begley I’m like most people, I see my faults all too clearly. What I don’t see as…
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Blessed
Written by Sanford Begley BLESSED BY THE GODS For many of my friends 2015 has been a horrible year that they are eager to see the back of. I too have had some rough patches this year, the death of friends, the deterioration of health of family and loved ones, job problems and financial…
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Guest Poetry: I Remember
I remember Invincibility I remember Eating everything I remember The fear in the eyes when we entered a buffet I remember Inexhaustibility I remember Celebrating every day I remember Three hours sleep was more than enough I remember Fearlessness I remember Walking Tall I remember Winning every fight, every game I remember Romance I remember…