At least it’s only the 10th of December. If it was next Monday the 17th already I might have to strangle Father Time because that’s just not funny. I still have loads of presents to buy (ugh, or even think about buying; I hate buying presents when I have no idea what to get for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘patricia briggs’
Where did this month go already?
Posted in criticism, fantasy, motivation / productivity, reading, writing, tagged christmas, fantasy, first person narration, john dickinson, patricia briggs, robin mckinley, stephenie meyer, third person narration, thwwwp on Monday 10 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Penn Station & oddities
Posted in family, new york, reading, review, tagged alison croggon, amtrak, christine warren, ilona andrews, mercy thompson, oddities, patricia briggs, penn station, stephenie meyer, thanksgiving, thwwwp, urban fantasy, victoria hanley on Monday 19 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Oddities” is one of my all-time favorite crazy words.
To begin on a less crazy note, I trekked over to Penn Station today to pick up our Amtrak tickets for this week’s holiday jaunt to Bryan’s family’s house. (The word “jaunt” is highly underused.) On my way there, I was walking through the Times Square station [...]
Birth order
Posted in family, reading, tagged elizabeth haydon, family dynamics, patricia briggs, robin mckinley, siblings on Tuesday 23 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading this article today. It’s a well presented article with a lot of good points on both sides of the birth order argument. As a kid I found this sort of thing fascinating because of my family’s dynamics. Both of my parents are youngest siblings (my dad of two, my mom of six) [...]