The Not-So-Good-Housekeeping Life of Meljean Brook
…and am oh-so-tired. Whoa. Recap of the last couple of days: nephew, born; daughter’s birthday party, finished (next year I might do something like Chuck E. Cheese’s, even though I HATE that place, because, man … I am not an organized arranger-party person. Luckily, the weather turned out nice (after two weeks of freaking cold, […]
Posts on women. Strong women. Real women. And misconceptions, too. Dave Sim vs Gail Simone (Gail Simone is the current Wonder Woman writer, but that’s only part of the reason why I love her. Responses like this are the other part.) A Pajiba review of Lipstick Jungle Should I add Karen’s post, too? (NSFPWDWTTAPRN*) ETA: […]
My sister Echo, who is a lot like me, is trying to determine what to name her baby (she just found out it’s a boy.) She’s getting a lot of opinions from family members, but can’t decide — and is afraid of hurting someone’s feelings. So she said to me, “if you put a poll […]
I think your little girl is cute; I really do. It’s undeniable that she has a great head on her shoulders. But we really need to talk about your parenting skills. Dora’s like, what — six years old? Seven? When I was that age, I was traipsing around the woods near my house, sure. I […]
Because nothing says “merry” like fuzzy balls dangling beneath something long, red (and floppy). Have a great one, everybody! meljean
So we meet again, Automated Postal Center. I see you were intimidated by my mad MacGyver skills that time you tried to eat my debit card, and so you have dreamed up new and horrid trials for me to overcome, new ways to thwart me. And you have almost succeeded. At midnight last night, I […]
Tip #1: Do not give your four-year-old child your debit card to hold while Mommy finishes up her business. Not even if you’re there on a Saturday because she’s been sick all week, making it difficult to get to the post office, and she still kind of looks miserable and tired, and she says, “Can […]
Every once in a while, you come across a concept that is so freaking cool, that you bang your head and wonder why you didn’t think of it. I ran across one of those today when I read an interview at Occasional Superheroine, regarding a new Zuda.com webcomic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis called […]
I cross the street in a timely manner. Seriously — is there a genetic reason that males of every race and class, aged 14-30, will not Get Out Of The Way? And not only do they not Get Out Of The Way, they stroll. And refuse to turn their heads, as if acknowledging that there […]
Cho on the Virginia Tech shootings, and racism.
The first Kurt Vonnegut book I read was GALAPAGOS, and I knew I was going to always love his work when his narrator began putting asterisks after the names of people who were soon going to die, so as not to unduly upset the reader. Anyway. Maybe he can see more over the edge than […]
Thanks to random.org, you’ve been selected as the winner of THE LEOPARD PRINCE! (Which I am halfway through (the first copy I bought) and enjoying very much.) I’ll be e-mailing you. Thank you so much to everyone who entered, and for your stories — so many of those, I can relate to, one way or […]
…while cooking spaghetti. (Or actually, a variation of spaghetti, with shell pasta instead of spaghetti noodles, because I’m really tired of spaghetti.) But apparently the pasta gods didn’t like that, and made my big toe pay the price. Also, I’m no longer a JR Ward virgin. But that has nothing to do with a) my […]
Will hopefully read and write lots and lots. Will probably not happen, as both the tot and the husband are home full time for a week. Yikes.
…this weekend, and didn’t really write enough, so now it’s time to purge. But I did get some books in: I also visited the Kam Meng restaurant in Newport — which is one of the few places I’ve had fish that I actually like. They’re a tiny little place on the historic bay front (overlooking […]