Changing Frequency

Now that Tea and Madness is published and available I hear one of two predictable questions: What are you working on now? When is the next book coming out? Answering the first question is easy: laundry. I’m working on a whole lot of laundry. As far as the next book…

Duggarville

*****Trigger Warning***** My phone has been chiming from the moment news of a young teenaged Josh Duggar acting “inexcusably for which [he was] extremely sorry and deeply regret[ed]”. My Facebook notifications were flooding with tags to various news articles almost as quickly as texts from various people — all wanting to…

Unpleasant People and the Problems I Have With Them

#Reverb14, Day 6: Despite our usually sunny dispositions … we all occasionally find ourselves having to deal with an incredibly unpleasant individual. […] Think back to such a situation: if the gloves were off, how you really would have liked to have dealt with them?   I have had to interact with…

It’s village-raising; not village-razing.

I advocate for village-raising of our children almost on a daily basis. I love the concept of shared responsibility in tending after neighborhood children when they are all outside enjoying everyone’s company.  If my child is doing something dangerous that would harm him/herself or others, I would hope that another…

no love for a brat

I’m sure by now most of the western hemisphere and half of the eastern hemisphere have already seen this video:   I know that I have seen this on my own Facebook newsfeed at least a dozen times usually being described as hilarious or adorable.  Never being one to join…