The Betty BlogsAnother Betty-inspired blog, this one coming from the lovely LilyC (Tigerlily Betty): How about ferrets? Now you live in Ohio, the research should be easy…. Or ten places you want to see before you die, and why. Or what you’d like to be if you weren’t a writer. Or what your favorite books are, and [...]
You know, every now and again, a comment will pop up here. Don’t worry – never from an official Betty, usually it’s someone who lurks and just can’t read what I wrote without coming in and saying, “You are wrong! How dare you insult me this way!” As if anything I’ve ever written here has [...]
Here is the thing with me; I don’t like exercise for exercise’s sake. I hate it. Treadmills, nautilus machines, even ellipticals, which I can do… I just resent having to exercise because someone told me I should. It sucks. I hate all the time-wasting process around it – get the right shoes, the exercise clothes, [...]
Okay, Betties, I need your help. I am traveling this week, and dealing with a birthday, and trying to get a book done. It’s the perfect storm of Busy. As such, I haven’t had time this week to compile the Sunday Best… so I’m hoping you can do it for me. Here’s what you do: [...]
A little more than a week ago, I asked the Betties for help with topics to help cover some of this week; as you read this blog, I am driving with two small children to go to New York where we will spend their Spring Break with their father. It’ll be a nice trip, things [...]
Today, my oldest daughter, Sweetness, turns eleven. For some reason this is hitting me in the face more than ten did. Probably because last year, when she turned ten, I was in the midst of my own hellstorm and didn’t have much time to think about it, honestly. It was a big deal for her, [...]
I so want to be the kind of person who can just… forgive. I have tried, a number of times, and I find myself falling back into anger and resentment. Maybe because I forced myself to forgive when I really didn’t mean it? Maybe because I forgave sloppily people who were destined to turn around [...]
I know I’ve talked a bit about the little nasty voice in my head. I’ve developed a theory about it. I think that, when you’re young, and things happen that make you feel bad about yourself, and no one ever tells you that the problem isn’t you, it creates this little broken part of the [...]
Week two? Week three? I have no idea. All I know is that I wrote and edited 8k words… this morning. That means I’m hitting the home stretch, which is always exciting. Also exciting is knowing that I’m not done today. Pray for me. Update: Make that 10k words. Today. Granted, a good 5k was [...]
Don’t worry; this isn’t going to be a depressing day. This is Death in the good way, the way the Tarot lays it out. Transition. Change. Let’s face it, we see death every day, we experience it. The infants that were us at one time died and became toddlers; the toddlers died and became kids; [...]
