Posted on June 19, 2008. Filed under: family, parenting, writing | Tags: children who move back in/won't move out, family |
Looks like my sixth revision is the charmed one and will go off in the post today. I hacked about 600 words from it. It was very heavy with exposition, mainly backstory. The original was not part of a series of short stories though now, I think, it is on the verge of being a [...]
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Posted on January 4, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: family |
Just when it seems we have enough familial dysfunction, we marry, inviting a whole new set of relatives onto the playing field.
With Will I was embarrassed at first about the state of what made up my immediate family. He assured me that I had nothing to worry about and after I met his family [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: family, new year, relationships |
Last New Year’s Eve found me on the computer at midnight after an earlier dinner out with my friends, Vicki and C.J. At one point in the evening two gentlemen were sending us drinks but while Vicki egged them on, I just felt as though they were pushing in where they were not wanted [...]
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Posted on January 1, 2008. Filed under: grief | Tags: family, relationships, YWBB |
I spoke of giving up blogging in my last post because I wonder what good it is doing me any more and what I could possibly have left to say that might interest anyone. It’s not as though I, or my life, is all that interesting. But just when I thought I didn’t need the [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: family, nanowrimo, writing |
Not literally and yet literally, time flies. And it’s not about fun either. I am not always having fun. The dishes, the laundry, the child, the cat, the groceries, the miscellaneous errands. The care and maintenance that goes into the all of the aforementioned can run a considerable range up and down and around [...]
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