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Have a Holly Jolly Creepy Doll-filled Christmas
Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Wicked Winter Solstice! Kickin' Kwanzaa! Happy Early Three Kings Day! Awesome Early Twelfth Night! (Did I cover them all?) I hope you are all cozy at home, listening to The Charlie Brown Christmas album, enjoying chocolates, and lying...
The Worst Make-Out Songs of All Time, Vol. 1
What makes or breaks a make-out song? What changes a melody from “Oh baby” to “You have got to be kidding me?” I pondered this quite a bit while doing intense research. Intense research mostly involved sitting on my couch eating Swedish Fish and trolling through my...
A Message from Mr. Fantastic Fiction
Hello Friend. Mr. Fantastic Fiction here. http://libba-bray.livejournal.com/26535.html It has been a long time since I posted on account of I had an unfortunate encounter with law enforcement, which resulted in my taking a forced sabbatical from my job at the E-Z Car...
Yes, we can!
Got some lovely news out of Germany today. Apparently, The Sweet Far Thing (aka Kartik's Schiksal--and that's "Kartik's Fate" so just get your mind out of the gutter) is nominated for fantasy book of the year on a German fantasy website. And you can vote for it, if...
The Rome Airport, a Survival Guide
Wow. I cannot thank you enough for your overwhelmingly kind responses to my Santa Claus blog. I laughed. I cried. I had much to mull over in reading your posts. Hearing all your stories about how you “found out” was very comforting, and your compassion was truly...
The End of Innocence
I knew it would happen sometime. I told myself to prepare. After all, he’s ten now, I said as I hauled out the Christmas ornaments box. I told myself this, and yet, it still caught me off-guard. Last night, as the boy and I were on the couch watching “Rudolph the...
Oops. A return to blogging. And Rome.
Okay. I didn't mean to take such a sabbatical from blogging that I might end up with my picture on the side of a milk carton, but I did. My bad. I will make up for my badness by blogging more frequently. Promise. It dawns on me that I have not posted my adventures in...
Facing fears
Hmmm. Well, right now, it seems that singing a song (and posting it to YouTube) and filming myself at American Girl among the creepy dolls (and posting it to YouTube) are duking it out in the face-your-fears poll. It's funny, because I got an email from Maureen saying...
Answering a Halloween Dare
It's my favorite holiday, it's my favorite holiday, it's my favorite holiday...la-dee-da-dee-dum. Happy Halloween to everyone! I'm back from my two-week excursion to Germany, Austria, and Italy (will post about Rome starting tomorrow or Sunday), and am so jet-lagged...
DAYS EIGHT & NINE–VIENNA, NURNBERG
***I apologize for the length of these posts, but since I can only get spotty Internet connection, I take it where I can. Danke for your patience.*** DAY EIGHT--VIENNA My suitcases are becoming the bane of my existence. They’re like a relative I can barely tolerate...
Days Five, Six, and Seven–Munich, Tubingen, Speyer, Leipzig
Okay. So I finally got an Internet connection. Here are the last two days of travel bloggage. Sorry--I hear my website is down. I think Theo is on it right now. Also sorry this is long but what can you do? DAY FIVE I am having major Internet difficulties, which I...
Goodbye Frankfurt, Hello Munich
***I tried to post this yesterday, but the Internet, she hates me. Fingers crossed.*** I’m at the hotel here in Munich, and I have no Internet connection. Hopefully, I can post this at some point. Today, I managed to haul my two huge suitcases (what was I thinking...