An update on Evangeline. She and her family are all safe as they evacuated to a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. I talked to her yesterday and she was fine, but worried about her house, of course. As most of you know her home is near New Orleans and therefore below sea level. Today she called to tell me that she's heard from a contact down there ( Read more... )

This is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so I want to share the story of my dear friend Cheryl. She was a family friend that I knew my entire life. She was about 15 years older than me and thus of the age to adore the Beatles and actually attend their Hollywood Bowl concert. As long as I knew her she was the same vivacious, energetic person that I ( Read more... )

I had written this fic back in March after reflecting on what might happen with Sam and Pete. It's funny how every time I see them together, and see Sam liking him so much, I stop feeling so strongly about Sam and Jack. But here is what I wrote during a lull.

Title: The Question
Author: Heidiweidel
Spoilers: Chimera, possibly Affinity
Rated: G

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Loving Harry Potter this summer...saw the 3rd movie and had to re-read the book since I couldn't recall all that had been left out. Now reading Book 5 (had read 4 several times, so didn't feel like reading it again. Liking how Harry is changing a bit...more like a normal teenager with angst (granted, he has a bit more angst than the average teen ( Read more... )

Reading so many deep thoughts about the episode led me to need to put my own two cents in...this is pretty much what I wrote as a comment to someone else's entry and comments, but I decided I wanted to put it here, too. Hope no one minds. Thanks to mattebrit, nanda, and Katy M. for spurring me on.

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Back from Hawaii and from a Scifi convention for Stargate SG1.

This may be helpful to many of you...it's psycho-babble for "negative thinking" but it makes sense ( Read more... )

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