Annie Dean has tagged me. She honored me with a nomination for the Thinking Blogger Award and mentioned this post as being one that made her think. Okay, I’m hornswoggled that anyone would read blogs to think because frankly I do most of my blog reading either when I need to take a break from my work (i.e., from all that thinking I already do) or when I want to see what’s new with some of my favorite people online….
In story, the main character’s tragic faults are usually what cause all the conflict and drama, bringing about his or her downfall. In a romance, those same faults might cause a few misunderstandings in the beginning, but in the end become something acceptable. Yeah, faults are all that and more, but they are always so dressed up in the people you want to like—your friends, yourselves, the heroes and heroines. And villains get all the undressable faults, the ones you…
One of these (Wicked) is not approved quite yet, but we’re close to it, so I’m adding it here—mostly to keep the numbers even. Share this post:
I’m going to the fair with Hercules And we might take awhile For the Scarborough Fair is far away, One hundred and twenty miles. There’s so much to do and so much to see, A glass hill and an apple tree. We must sew a shirt without one stitch And clean all the stables with naught but a ditch. We may not even get to the fair Or come back after going there Because, my friend, the whole trip’s ……
I still eat kiddie cereals every now and then. I get the tiny travel-sized boxes so they don’t get stale in between my infrequent cereal moods. I guess that’s why the guy at the grocery store assumed I had kids. “Picking up the kid at three today?” he asked me as he rang up my items at the checkout lane. “Uh, no,” I replied, confused because I’d totally forgotten I had the cereal there and couldn’t figure out why he’d…