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  • Dream Land

    So last night I had a whole bunch of people over. I'm talking, a HUGE crowd of people, filling up my whole apartment. They were vague and kind of faceless, but chattering away like old friends and eating me out of house …

  • Because I'm Just Having Too Much Fun!

    Thought you might be interested in a sample of the work I've been up to this morning.It's rather exhausting, I'll have you know, to spend your morning fencing . . . but rather exciting at the same time . . . . Newly Writ…

  • Swallowed

    I am putting my head up to take a breath before plunging again into the depths of my growing novel.AE (emerging from her room late the other evening): "Charity?"Charity (looking up to the loft): "Yeah?"AE: "Is there life…

  • Decorating the Christmas Tree!

    My "blond brother," Matthew, came for supper last night. He was invited, truth be told, primarily for the purpose of carrying Charity's and my Christmas tree up our staircase! But hey, we gave him good food. As Julie sai…

  • Reveling in Coequal Badness

    I am missing my brothers.All three of them are gathered at the Stengl household these days.And I'm not there to enjoy them!Sorrow.But I called and chatted yesterday with the biggest of them. We had an intellectual debate…

  • Thanksgiving Festivities

    So now I must give you a photo documentation of my Thanksgiving with the Schlax family.I started out the day playing jewelry-maker with Abbey. Rather, I sat and admired and encouraged and looked on in awe, as Abbey, a v…

  • And He CACKLES Maliciously!

    Somewhere in this dark world, there is a typist.This typist was given a recipe, a soup recipe, and told to type it up to print on the back of a bag of split peas.And this typist, as he gazed at the recipe in his hand, ha…

  • Humility is . . .

    . . . probably very good for me.Humility is sending the third draft of your novel off to various readers whose opinions you value, then beginning to read it for yourself and recognizing how dreadfully rough the whole bl…

  • Epic Adventure

    I just came home from an epic adventure . . . . . . otherwise known as "babysitting."The Baker family sports five younglings under the age of nine, including a two-year-old known for sobbing her little eyes out when Mom …

  • HI! Talk to me! Pleeeeeeeeeeease!

    I went to work at my church this morning, landscaping work, in fact.Yay for digging ditches.Gentleman from My Church: "Hey girls! If the whole wife and mother thing doesn't work out for you, at least you know you have an…

  • Smooth-Talk

    AE: "So, Mummy told me the girl in that movie you watched was pretty cute. What did you think?"Peter: "Well . . . she reminded me of you, so yeah, she was pretty cute." SCORE! for the Little Brother. AE: "Peto, you need …

  • Growing!

    My novel = 61,780 words . . . and still growing!I've never written anything quite this long.I'm kinda excited about this book!Still has a ways to go, but I'm really thinking I'll have this draft complete before December!…

  • AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

    The above is to be read in tones of utmost dismay.What, you may ask, could cause such sorry moans from the mouth of erstwhile perky Annieliz?Only this, say I, that I should lose over 2,000 WORDS OF NEW WRITING in my nove…

  • Autumnal Spirit

    First inspiration I've had to do anything artistic that is nonteaching-related in . . . rather a long time! Whipped this up in about an hour. I'd intended to do it in pen-and-ink and watercolor . . . but I'm sick. And t…

  • It's Here

    I can feel it in my chest.I can feel it building in strength. In malice. Full of evil intent.I can feel it depriving me of concentr…

  • 2 Corinthians 12:9

    For My strength is made perfect in weakness. "Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give thee victory. Your emptiness is but the prepar…

  • Handsome Young Fellow . . . .

    There is nothing in this world like having a handsome young guy with a winning smile run up to you, grab both your hands in his, gaze deeply into your eyes, and exclaim before the whole world . . . .Handsome Young Guy: "…

  • Costume Fun

    So Charity and I intended to go to a costume party last night.Then it came right down to it, neither of us wanted to go.Nevertheless, we put on our costumes, took a few pictures for the fun of it, handed out candy to the…

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