Jeers: For closing the ENTIRE National Museum of American History for 2 years for renovations.
Cheers: For opening a temporary exhibit, "America's Greatest Treasures," at the National Air & Space Museum, featuring 150 of the most important artifacts in the NMAH collection.
Jeers: For using Dorothy's ruby slippers as the "selling point" on ( Read more... )

Stranger than adjusting to a 40-hour workweek is adjusting to a Tuesday-Saturday workweek.  I'm definitely on Thursday mode right now ( Read more... )

So much to say, and I promised to be brief ( Read more... )

So far I have:

met my cousins' baby Elise (she's beautiful!)
gotten unpacked
watched Serenity (1st time)
eaten sushi (and not just the veggie kind) with chopsticks
been to a Bowie Baysox baseball game with fireworks
found London Town
(accidentally) found the Chesapeake Bay
visited the Maryland State House in Annapolis
visited the Historic Annapolis ( Read more... )

So, higher education and environmental friendliness seem as if they'd go hand-in-hand, right?

Well, allow me to share with you that it has taken, so far, 4/5 of an entire ream of paper to apply to graduate school.

Let's pray those trees all died for a good reason...

So I'm switching bedrooms at my house, right?  And my mom has been on me to go through all my drawers and nostalgic preservations (she calls it junk, sheesh!).  So I'm going through my top dresser drawer last night (creepy, I once wrote a story named "Top Dresser Drawer"!) and amongst high school marching band music and tennis team t-shirts and ( Read more... )

You know what's a really joyful feeling?  To talk about something for almost six months, to think and dream about it, to discuss it with others and constantly pray about it...and then to put together the first complete application packet and get it ready to be mailed out in less than one week.

Whew!

Two down, six to go...

I once heard at a writers' conference that every writer should invest in a laser printer. Well, I have finally done so, after a year and a half of consideration. It is small, it is quiet, and it is fast. Major purchases are always a little scary for me, but this one was less scary, thanks to gift cards from my grandparents :) Merry Christmas to ( Read more... )

If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want, either good or bad.

When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you.

When you hear these words uttered from your own mouth, you know it is bad:

"I don't want to write; I want to clean my room so I can focus when I write."

Because you know that it has nothing to do with focusing, and it has everything to do with putting off.  You have now lied to yourself and anyone who might have been listening.  And why do you put ( Read more... )