Goodnight, Adam.
This morning, when I turned on my computer and saw this, a still-open era from my childhood finally ended.
Adam Walsh would have been 33 today. But when he was six, he became not just a headline, but a pop culture icon to my friends and me. He embodied our first encounter with real fear — fear with [...]
Next Time, I’ll Vote For…
I realize my posting delinquency, especially during the nasty weather, pre-holiday-don’t-want-to-do-any-real-work-at-work time of year, is inexcusable. I’ll offer up an excuse anyway.
Three weeks ago, I was blindsided by my child’s first illness. Coxsackie virus. (Is it just me, or do the most virulent viruses always have strange, Far-Eastern sounding names? Too bad no one ever asked [...]
On Being Reviewed…
I guest blogged today over yonder. Check it out.
My Favorite Vote
My husband is the historical acadamian in the family. A virtuoso of electoral statistics, today he’s in his element, working in numbers, trends, and tendencies the way I relish molding sentences and descriptions. Our diverse spheres of knowledge are apparent during our nightly viewing of Jeopardy. Geography, history, economics? I’m awful. And history’s my worst.
But I do enjoy [...]
Carnies
Fall has fallen. My baby boy, struggling to master the art of stepping upright, stumbles against the ottoman once more. We’re officially in the cruising phase (easily confused with the bruising phase). I think of the series of phases he’ll go through next, all the way through adolescence when, Dr. Spock and his contemporaries would [...]
Book Scars
Good Southern, church-going gals are not supposed to fear death. Premarital sex, Wal-Mart, male kindergarten teachers, those are all ok to fear. But not the great passing-on. No, if you’re a person of faith, you’re supposed to welcome it. Or, at the very least, not have an unnatural paranoia of it.
But I do. I always have. [...]
Dear Mister Jesus: Stop Embarassing Me.
So I grew up convinced that the children of senior Pastors had the hardest time. Guess I forgot about the kids of Ministers of Music. (You’ll need sound for this one; the clip comes about 20 secs after the host’s lead-in, but it’s worth it. Hat tip to E! and The Soup.):
http://vids.eonline.com/services/link/bcpid1396519019/bctid1805534554
The Five People You Meet at Every Book Signing
I had another book signing yesterday. Traffic was pretty light. I blame the economy, the sunny day, Barack Obama, Bristol Palin, global warming, and Red Dye #5.
In all seriousness, I get tired of hearing writers bemoan light-traffic book signings. Writing a book, and then having that book published, is very difficult nowadays. So if you find yourself sitting [...]
The Communal Highchair of Righteousness
This week, I took my one-year-old to preschool at our church for the first time. (Yes, our church construes the definition “school” liberally. Since our son only recently managed growth of his own eyebrows, I can’t imagine what exquisite lessons in finite mathematics await him. I just hope he’s challenged enough, you [...]
The Book Therapist
People often ask me what I’ll do if someone says something bad about the book. You know, the inevitable comment on Amazon (by A. Nonymous, of course): “I HAAAAAAAATED… it!!!!! May-be will sell on ebay 2day and make some money back that I spent on it cause was horribel LOLOL.”
(Yes, I am implying [...]