Years ago, Neil Gaiman posted a sad post about how his youngest daughter had reached an age where she refused to travel without her hairspray and other styling accoutrements, which meant he could no longer travel with carry-on luggage only. In an attempt to convince her otherwise, he promised he would buy her new hairspray and what-not at Heathrow Airport, so that she wouldn’t even have to leave the airport without hairspray. She said, “If you want to, Dad, but I’m going to bring my own anyway.” I chortled when…
Paging CJ
There’s a Magical Words reader who goes by the handle “CJ”. CJ, if you happen to read this blog as well, could you drop me an email at cemurphyauthor AT gmail.com? We’re looking for permission to use some of your Magical Words comments in a book, and need to get that in writing from you. :) thinks to do – write – work on MW page proofs – change the kitty litter – clean the lanai – laundry – clean the kitchen
links make a post
I’ve just had a debate with my mom about this article, which I think has great points, and which she thinks is hyperbolic. She would like it to be “How to get better at anything!” instead of “Six keys to being excellent at anything”, which is probably a fair distinction. Either way, I think the points espoused are very good ones. I particularly like #2 and #6 (#1 seems obvious). The problem with making costumes from ElfQuest is that basically they look like humans dressed up as elves. These two,…
things
Last night we went to the protest to protest police violence at protests. :) It was my first protest, and kinda fun, although one of their chants sounded suspiciously like “You scream? Ice cream!” We probably had more fun with that than we should’ve, but hey, simple minds, simple pleasures. :) (The chant was actually “Whose streets? Our streets!”) I failed to get up and write today, on the logic that since Ted’s home I can hand him the baby and get some work done. Really, though, I was just…
continuing with the busy
Yesterday turned out to be very busy. Not only did I get a lot of housework done and write 1700 words (!), I had to pop into town, so Mom met me and we went to look for high chairs. At Mothercare, they gave me a free flyer for a baby photo shoot, and Young Indiana was looking particularly adorable in a baseball outfit (the baseball outfits just *slay* me) so I thought what the hell. So we spent, I don’t know, half an hour, anyway, getting his picture taken,…