Category Archives: random stuff

marking time, remembering to keep posting

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Deanna

Another Monday. House is clean, finally, and even the street’s been swept by our first city leaf pick-up of the season. More golden maple sheddings already dot the blacktop. I want to know why nothing’s sacred anymore. Rejections keep hitting me on Sundays; three the past month. Oh, right. Email makes the difference. Wtf? Sorry. … Continue reading →

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good excuse, no?

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Deanna

Friday’s housecleaning around here, and I really should get started, butthey already stopped by, and it was too late, so why bother now?

Posted in adorable family units, random stuff | 9 Comments

wetting on with it

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Deanna

It’s day three. I’ve fallen behind. I started out ahead of the game, but today I don’t have a post ready, and the day is wearing on, and the rain is pulling down the yellowing leaves, and Victoria just finished reading Orwell’s 1984, so we’re discussing some depressing stuff (some quite interesting, too), and the … Continue reading →

Posted in nablopomo, random stuff | 8 Comments

crumb bum!

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Deanna

Working over the weekend on my Europe pictures, while munching salty bits from the bottom of a chip bag, I remembered expletives my mom employed during my formative years. “Oh, piffle!” she’d say if she couldn’t find her keys. A minister’s wife must refrain, of course, from words irrespective of wholesomeness. A real person, as … Continue reading →

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oopses

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Deanna

I’m working in Word at the moment (7:00 am), a better place for me, probably, than the Internet. Victoria has let me use her laptop in the dining room so I can start on word processes earlier in the day. She doesn’t sleep late, really; we’re just operating on different internal clocks. Anyway, while Victoria … Continue reading →

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sometimes life is funny

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Deanna

Here’s where I get into trouble. No one to blame but myself. Still, as a man with arms like sweet potatoes once said, “I yam what I yam.” I want to say something about Christians and culture and tragedy and Amy Grant. If I manage to make a point, I guess it will read on … Continue reading →

Posted in opinionated, random stuff | 11 Comments

Lil Huffy, old haunts, new gizmos

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Deanna

Different exercises meet needs different ways. Tim put together a bike for me from, of course, garage sale parts. We’d saved a cushy seat from my last bike (I love that cushy seat). My “new” steed eagerly complied when I invited her to spin me up the bike path.She has hot pink cables, but I … Continue reading →

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album cover that should be

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Deanna

Now if only they could play music…

Posted in family, random stuff | 3 Comments

to show for myself

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Deanna

I figured out yesterday I’ve written seven essays this year. That’s in addition to my first try at the memoir manuscript. One of the essays has been accepted, two others are out circulating now, and more will be submitted when a few journals begin reading again in September. This is, like, good, for me. From … Continue reading →

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