I was especially happy to see the below trailer for the upcoming Jason Segel-penned muppets movie on the Facebook page of FaN blogger, Michael Kass, yesterday. Not just because I love Jason Segel — no most of my happiness stemmed from the fact that I can’t remember  a time when I didn’t love the muppets. [...]

I forgot whether it was on another blog or in a book or maybe a newspaper article, but I was reading something in which a woman was talking about what she and her husband would have died of if not for modern medicine. And I’m somewhat morbid, so that got me to thinking that if [...]

I live in California, so while I claim not to believe in horoscopes I kind of do. I tend to get along with Capricorns, Virgos, and Tauruses particularly well. But you know who I get along with best of all? People who were born in May. My husband was born in May. My BFF was [...]

I’m really honored to have been asked to contribute to the multi-blog Dollars and $ense of Family Building Discussion. If you’re new to the this blog, I’ll start off with a simple overview of our family building process up to now. April 2007: I went off birth control. April 2008: After a year of trying [...]

Lately, Betty has started really loving children’s music. She tries to sing along with YO GABBA GABBA, so tunelessly that we often have to check with each other that she’s actually singing. Sadly, singing ability doesn’t run in either of our families, and it doesn’t look like Betty’s going to break that tradition. However, there’s [...]

A lot of singers make a big deal out of singing with their shoes off or on. Before I got super-organized, I used to almost always write in bed with my shoes off. Also, the Writing Pad classes I attend are shoeless, and I’ve often found myself getting what feel to be deep and creative [...]

One of the things that I discovered after a year of making lifestyle changes (read: dieting) is that there are certain foods that I will happily substitute with a lower-calorie alternative and a certain kind of food that I will not. For instance, I happily chow on sugar free jello and pudding. And on the [...]

Like many women raised by women from the south, I am not all that formal with friends, but I try to be unfailingly polite to strangers. I don’t expect the same from others. In fact, I consider the French person’s and New Yorker’s infamous skills for being rude to people they don’t know, to be [...]

FaN blogger Ryan Dixon sent me a link to this Psychology Today article, which was really a response to this blogger’s questioning of the way black people are depicted in speculative fiction. Basically the original argument comes down to so-in-so does such a bad job of writing black folks, I sometimes wish so-in-so just wouldn’t [...]

I was informed in a roundabout way that one of my favorite authors, Lisa Tucker, will be releasing a new novel called THE WINTERS IN BLOOM this September. I was filled with a rush of joy, because Tucker never tells the same story. She tries new things and she makes you have to trust her [...]