I have a new hobby. It’s YouTube. Not in the way you think. I listen to lectures on it while I work or as I fall asleep. Anyway, I stumbled onto a video the other day (while watching a commercial for handbags when I wasn’t listening to a lecture) of a young man in New York City who sells high …
My nostrils don’t match
You think you know yourself, and then one day, you record yourself singing at the piano and you’re like, WHAT? ONE OF MY NOSTRILS IS SMALLER THAN THE OTHER! How does that happen? You know how they say that the most beautiful people are symmetrical? Obviously I’m not one of those. Actually, people with perfectly symmetrical faces aren’t the beautiful …
The Many Adventures of Mr. Himself: In Which He Gets Ready to Travel Overseas to the Philippines
Yesterday I introduced you to my husband, whom I lovingly refer to as Mr. Himself and explained that I’m dedicating a blog post category to him. After I wrote the post yesterday, I realized I failed to let you know the important work he’s up to besides hoarding toilet paper. My husband is a gifted guitarist, song writer and worship …
The Many Adventures of Mr. Himself: In Which This One Involves Toilet Paper
With his permission, I’ve decided to dedicate a portion of my blog to Mr. Himself. He is such a funny person to live with that I can’t help writing about him. And since he doesn’t take himself seriously, he’s okay with being exposed in this way. Mr. Himself lives at the mercy and whims of many others for various reasons. One …
Steampunk Hat Phase 2
It’s finished! I wish I had time to model it for you, but I’m way behind packing for the ACFW Conference, so I’ll have to take pictures at the genre dinner and post them for you then. In the meantime, here’s a very short video of Spook checking it out. Of course, anytime I start to video my pets they immediately …
Steampunk Hat Phase 1
I need a steampunk hat to go with my genre costume at the ACFW National Writer’s Conference in Dallas, Texas. As I explain in the video below, I decided that making a steampunk hat would be less expensive than buying one ready-made from an Etsy store. I was wrong. The hat I really wanted was one like this (I adore …
What’s on your writing desk, Elaine Stock?
Today I’m excited to feature one of my dear writing pals, Elaine Stock. She is represented by the same literary agent I am, the lovely Linda Glaz. I’m so happy that my readers get to know Elaine. She has a very engaging blog. You’ll want to check it out. Karla: I love this picture of you and your cat! I …
Shana Tova! Happy 5776!
I wrote about Rosh Hashanah in depth last year, so most of this post is the same. But it’s such a beautiful symbolic holiday to Christians as well as Jews, and I wanted to share the information again. Especially in light of the Shemitah and the buzz going on about danger coming on Yom Kippur September 23. (I’m not saying …
Autism grows up: Their first jobs!
It’s been an exciting school year so far at the Akins ranch. The twins are in their senior year. They are 20 years old and will be 21 in February. They’ve waited quite anxiously for several years for this to happen and now it has. They have jobs! Their vocational school, Heartland Career Center, has a program that helps high school …
The world is going to end in September 2015
Did you hear? The world is going to end in September. Or something like that. Apparently, the Illuminati has been sending us subliminal messages since way back via movies. Some folks think Jesus is going to return during Rosh Hashana. Others think the Illuminati is going to put us (Christians?) in internment camps. Honestly, I don’t know if all these things …