A Legend Passes
Posted by Morrighan on September 7, 2007 at 3:28 pm | Last modified: October 17, 2013 4:22 pmI can’t begin to say how “Wrinkle” made a difference in my life. I read it first at 7, then at 11 for school as most grade 6 kids do. I’ve read it twice since.
She will be missed.
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Author Madeleine L’Engle, whose novel “A Wrinkle in Time” has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s, has died, her publicist said Friday. She was 88.
L’Engle died Thursday at a nursing home in Litchfield of natural causes, according to Jennifer Doerr, publicity manager for publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
More Information: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/09/07/obit.lengle.ap/index.html
Categories: Cynical BytchWytch, Pagan Parenting | Comments Off | PermalinkWeekend Catch-Up
Posted by Morrighan on at 11:07 am | Last modified: October 17, 2013 4:22 pmIt’s going to be a very busy weekend.
I’ve got two editing projects on the go, one substantial and one proof. Then I have at least fifty slush to wade through for both CM and Apex (although, if I get ‘em all done I get a break from CM for a month and I’ll grab more Apex slush).
I have five books on/in the review files. Most of which are sitting comfortably…but the authors are giving me the eyeball..I can feel it.
I have to get back to work on another project for a contest that’s deadlined at the end of this year. Not much time to write another 50K, edit, first-reader it, edit and get it out. Gah…anyone want to volunteer their eyeballs in late November?
Numerous articles must be written this weekend as well. I promised new material for ALL of the sites. And I feel article-y this week, so it’s a good time to get working.
Finally, I have some cover work to do. :)
Geez. I think you’re all right, I AM crazy.
PS – will be writing about the girls first week back at school, as well as catching up on email as well. :)
Categories: Cynical BytchWytch, Pagan Parenting | Comments Off | PermalinkMaudlin Morning
Posted by Morrighan on August 24, 2007 at 8:44 am | Last modified: August 24, 2007 8:44 amI’m determined to stay awake for most of the day today. Or even all of it. I slept four hours yesterday, between 8:30 and 2:30. My schedule is so out of whack it’s making me feel sick again. Last thing I need is to go back on the Migraine Motorway all the way to Seizure City. I probably would have been able to stay awake yesterday, if it hadn’t have been for all the bawling I did reading the last two-thirds of Deathly Hallows. I read straight through from 10 PM to 8:15 AM, bawling from about 7 AM on… Oddly, “In The Arms of the Angels” is on the radio just now, while I type this and glare at the book.
I don’t think I like JK Rowling as much as I once did. If you want to cheat, and see why I’m pissy:
The Deathly Hallows Fast Find
It’s not just the book that’s got me going, it’s a lot of things. I went digging through my old Backwash stuff (I’ll be re-posting my Cynical BytchWytch stuff here, eventually) and naturally, found the articles from mid-June to late-October, 2003. Not to mention the articles where I’m writing about Suite101, and…I can tell I loved the place. Amazing what a couple of years will do. I talk about old friends I haven’t heard from in years – probably mostly my fault, since I stopped being pussy-footed and started saying what was on my mind. I’m me, like me or lump me. Still though – the heartstrings tug when I read about one or the other of our strange and wonderful exploits. Oh, and my rather lurid behaviour between June and October. Some of those things..wow. How did I not end up with alcohol poisoning? Or something worse? Wow – I had fun. ;)
And then there were some truly shocking things I wrote – and posted publicly – because of my anger and hatred of two very icky people. I had totally forgotten writing them. I’m well and truly mean when I want to be. To entire grouping of people, because of the few. That’s bad. Bad witch. And then there are the OTHER truly shocking things I wrote, on the red-light side of Backwash. ;) FUN!
Then I found the memorial article for my grandfather (his was posted at Backwash, and gran’s was posted a year later at Suite). Gods, it hurts.
And TDH… you’ve come back around. I hear you calling me. I miss you…
Obviously, it’s time to get back to work and stop moping around. So, who’s got a dungeon, a pair of solid shackles and a feather?
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