Everybody’s heard of the Marine Toys for Tots foundation. Did you know that they have a Literacy Program as well? Because the gift of words keeps on giving far longer than the batteries in that shiny robot. The program accepts new books only: To support the program in your community, please contact your local The UPS Store or Mail…
Here is the track listing for 2010: 1. Christmas Name Song The Young Americans 2. December ’63 (oh what a night) Four Seasons 3. Santa, Santa, Santa Gene Autry 4. Christmastime in Tinseltown Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 5. Every Time it Snows Olivia Newton-John (featuring Jon Secada) 6. The Man…
The votes are in, and everybody agrees. Mark your calendars! What: Princess Alethea’s 35th Birthday Spectacular When: January 11, 2011 Where: Your blog (or facebook page) Who: YOU, wearing a tiara! As discussed previously,35 is my mother’s favorite number. I’m only going to turn 35 once. As it happens, that happy event will occur in less than a month,…
Okay, guys. I need your help on this one. My sister and I were once discussing our favorite numbers. My mother pondered aloud what her own favorite number might be. Without missing a beat, my sister and I immediately spouted “35.” It’s always been 35 with my mother. “I have told you 35 times to empty that dishwasher” or…
Pass it Along: In which I find out about cool stuff and pass it along to you. Please feel free to pass it along to others! ******************************************************* Author friend Steven Saus is running an interesting contest over on his site: Create an inspirational poster that inspires you to go out and kick ass. Sound cool? I know I’m certainly…
This illustrates the parenting skillz of a very close friend of mine. He knows who he is.
I’m only *mostly* dead. My sinuses hated me before I hopped on the bus to NY last week, and once I got back (from Thanksgiving and visiting family 3 hours away for the weekend) I was exhausted. I bumped up the cold medicine and took lots of vitamins and turned the humidifier on high and drank lots of fluids…but…
In celebration of today’s release of Jim McCann & Janet Lee’s Return of the Dapper Men, I have changed my profile pics on both Twitter and Facebook to this Dapper version of MOI! Janet drew this last year for the “Diary of a Mad Scientist Garden Gnome” serial (which, like Dapper Men, was *also* inspired by a J.K. Lee…
Dear writers: when it’s a gray and gloomy day outside, find a place to write that inspires you. Pretend you’re not in your house but instead a villa that you’ve rented for the week. The dishes, the lawn, the errands — those are someone else’s problems. Right now, all you need to worry about is hot coffee/cocoa, a roaring…
In this, the season of Thanksgiving (in the US), let us give thanks to King Fabulous WebMaster Phillip I, who has fixeth the website email form. I notified him of the problem and he wrote me back immediately, telling me that he had discovered what was wrong. As I am Princess Technoidiot, what I gathered from his missive was:…
I finished my novel on Wednesday. I had such…
Joan Wilder was always my hero. I was 8…
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