“Christ-mas is coming! The goose is getting FAAATTTT–“ Blogosphere? “Please to put a penny in the old man’s HAAAAATTTTTT–“ Blogosphere! “If you have no penny, a ha’ penny will DOOOOOOOOOO….” Blogosphere! Shut up for a minute! What? Oh, hey. How’s it going? What are you doing up on that ladder? What does it look like […]
Twas The Week Before Christmas
December 18, 2011 by
Twas The Week Before Christmas by Betsy Horvath Twas the week before Christmas And out at the mall, A tide of anxiety Threatens us all. The merchants are busy Hawking their wares, While parents pull out What’s left of their hairs. The sales clerks are frazzled And just slightly mad, But the stores, […]
More Than A Hobby
December 15, 2011 by
My mother is a wonderful artist. She paints in acryllics and oils and I think she is just brilliantly talented. Over the years she’s produced many, many beautiful things. She’s sold a lot of her work, but she’s never really broken out and made her painting more than a hobby. She’s never taken her art […]
Just Some Thoughts On Barbie
December 13, 2011 by
I used to love playing with my Barbies. My sister and I would crack their little legs and put them on my mother’s spinning wheel. We would spin the wheel and they’d go flying across the room….good times. Our Barbies and Kens would go camping and swimming and ride in their cars and even on […]
Naming Babies
December 11, 2011 by
When pregnancies crop up among my friends and co-workers I, as an author, feel that it is my obligation, nay, my duty, to help come up with names for the babies. As far as I know, none of my suggestions have ever been chosen by the parents, but I remain ever hopeful. It has occurred […]
Does It Need To Be Fun?
December 8, 2011 by
The original title of this post was “It Should Be Fun”. I was planning on talking about how writing needs to be enjoyable. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that wasn’t quite what I believe. It’s not that writing shouldn’t be fun. It’s that “fun” is too weak a word […]
