I haven’t bought anything from Chick-fil-a in years. I don’t agree with their business practices and their stances on gay marriage and who and where they give their money. I therefor refuse to give my money to them to use for things I cannot support. I rarely get anything at Walmart unless I cannot help […]
COVID sucks, because my daughter’s graduation was online today at 6:30.They did their best to give these students a good graduation though. Earlier last month, they did a drive-by graduation parade of sorts where the students drove around the campus while people stood on the sides of the road and cheered and held up signs […]
An advanced review of Peggy Eddelman’s debut middle-grade novel, SKY JUMPERS, for ages 8-14 or up. SKY JUMPERS, by Peggy Eddelman Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Release Date: September 24, 2013 Takeaway: If you liked THE HUNGER GAMES, you’ll love SKY JUMPERS with a similar voice and feel, strong female lead and male […]
Internet Writing & Blogging Why you should not Steal Royalty-Free Images for your Articles There are a lot of people in the world today who believe that if you find an image on a website, it’s fair game to just right click it and save it and use it for whatever you want to use […]
Thoughts on Writing: Generating ideas for online article writing As a freelance writer, I often find paying writer’s jobs on the internet, and then I read the submission guidelines, check out what the site or publication has published in the past, and then research a bit and write a query or article and submit it on […]
Writing Tips Freelance writing: Editing and formatting a magazine article Abstract: One common question asked by new freelance writers is how to format a magazine, article or short story submission when the publication/publisher has not posted any submission guidelines. It’s very important that if the publisher had posted submission guidelines, you follow them. One common […]
So we have a few cases in our area, three in my suburb city. Technically, we’re Galveston county, but Harris county is literally 5 blocks from me on one side, which puts me about halfway between Galveston and Houston. We’re a suburb of Houston proper, but it doesn’t feel like Houston to me, which I […]
Today marks one week of covid19 isolation and staying on lockdown. I broke down and ordered food in today. I’ve been cooking at home for three weeks and I was just not feeling up to cooking, so we ordered from Door Dash a no-contact delivery. They literally knock on the door and leave it on […]
Being cooped up indoors and not being able to go anywhere means I should have plenty of time to write. Writing socially isolates the author. We tend to go off into our own little worlds and disappear into that universe. I can live inside my mind and be perfectly happy. When my parents would ground […]
It’s so funny how we have these brains that work in strange ways. I don’t leave the house much at all, but as soon as I’m told I can’t leave the house, I think of all these places I want to go. Today, we tried to take the van (Which we finally were able to […]
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