Some days life is good to you. You show up to see one of your favorite authors and, due to the extreme heat in Phoenix causing all the sane people to leave for San Diego, you find a cozy circle with only three chairs left. You sit down. Seconds later, the store manager guides Taylor […]
10 Tips for Handling Tweens & Early Teens – or The Crucible of Middle School
The Accidental Parent, Part V You don’t have to believe in heaven, but if you think there is no hell, you’ve not parented a middle schooler. Life for a tween/teen is hell. Social hell, biological hell, physical hell, parental hell. And, as a parent, it hurts to watch. Don’t believe me? Ask your mom for […]
Yay! Trench Coats, Episode II: Jacob’s Story launches today!
I’m humbled by the reaction to Trench Coats, Episode I: The Meeting. So far, it has sold more than I anticipated at this stage (I anticipated about zero ~ give or take one:). Advertisers are serial-averse and social media is mostly un-read spam these days, so it’s hard to get the word out, making the […]
9 Tips for Your Children’s Golden Years 5-10
The Accidental Parent, What I learned from 37 Years of Mistakes, Part IV Two things happen in this part of your child’s life: 1) You will honestly believe your kids will be elected president after winning Olympic Gold Medals and before bringing home the Nobel Prize for Physics — and so will every other parent; […]
Review: First Drop — by Zoë Sharp
There are pleasures in life that ground the soul, like coming home for the first time your freshman year in college. I just had a literary equivalent of that experience. Many months ago, I was possessed by demons who convinced me to review books for a major website. The tsunami that hit my inbox held […]
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