Queen of Rambles

Apparently I am un-verifiable. I can get credit cards. I can sponsor an immigrant from a strange, socialist nation. I can be hounded by BMG music services. I can’t get phone service through Verizon. Maybe it really is time to drop the land line, but I hate talking on the cell phone any more than [...]

I submitted a personal essay to a book about women turning 30 MONTHS ago and was told they would have the selections made by February. I never heard back so figured I was a big, fat reject. I just got an e-mail today that my essay will be included! No details yet on anything, really, [...]

I’ve thought of several witty comments throughout the day, but I can’t manage to remember a single one of them. I am brain dead. The baby has sucked all the intelligence right out of me, and I’m left with thoughts such as “why is my glass of water empty again?” It makes for fantastic blogging. [...]

Sometimes I wonder if anyone is actually reading Mosaic Minds, then I get an e-mail the confirms we have at least convinced a few people that we know what we are doing. Today Mosaic Minds could have brought me fame. In Norway. But still, it would have been fame. There’s some guy making a documentary [...]

I’ve been awake for hours and finally decided I may as well get out of bed instead of just laying around being miserable. I spent much of the night wrestling with old teaching nightmares. Ugh. You’d think I’d be over teaching nightmares by now. I think they were inspired by a post I saw over [...]

Is it possible to have an exciting day without ever leaving the house? If so, I think my day may qualify. It all started with Mike gently caressing my mostly sleeping cheek, softly declaring that we were at war. He wasn’t just whistling dixie. I spent most of my morning fighting off evil spammers and [...]

We saw our buddy, Carl, off today. It was sad to see him go since we’ve been having so much fun. This is going to sound weird, but other than my family members, he is the person I have contact with that I’ve known the longest. We met on a Wheel of Time website when [...]

I have a few pictures of our trip uploaded. This trip was what we call a Freak Out–a meet up of several people from my fantasy book club community, so the audience is quite a bit different from here and you may not find the pictures at all exciting. Toronto Pictures. The site itself kind [...]

I’m home! We got in last night after a crazy twelve and a half hour drive! It was insane. It took us about nine and a half hours to get to Toronto so none of us are sure what happened. It felt like we were on a conveyor belt that was going backwards. We had [...]

We’re headed to Toronto tomorrow morning at 5 freakin’ 30 in the morning. It’s the only way to beat DC rush hour traffic and it sucks. I’m not looking forward to the drive at all. Leaning the seat all the way back relieves my nerve pain, but it makes me feel like I’m in a [...]