Susan Adrian

Somebody forgot to turn on the heat in our buildings over the weekend, and it got down to the mid-20s (Fahrenheit) last night. It's c-c-...

It's Discussion Friday ! (A new feature, since I frequently find that on Fridays my brain is mush and I cannot imagine that anything I m...

I am not a stagemother, I will not be a stagemother, I swear I will never be a stagemother. But my 4-year-old had her first tap class yester...

My ranting post yesterday got me thinking about endings, and what I expect. I've probably already made my main point on that clear: when...

Well, that was a not so fun weekend. All three of us came down with some sort of food poisoning/stomach virus thingie, with fevers and all. ...

This morning I was cuddling with Child just after she woke up. She looked me over thoughtfully and said, "Mommy, I looove your shirt. A...

Grad school so far has been going well, and going poorly. As is often the case in life, both at the same time. The poor part was all adminis...

We dragged out the budget spreadsheet again today. This is something we do when we start to feel that expenses have gotten out of hand. You ...

Hellooooooooo! Sorry for the long absence. I was frantic-busy on Friday trying to catch up--I had 1200 words' worth of essays due, for o...

If you woke up with a weird, straight, 1/2-inch long cut right at the top of your forehead, that you didn't have before you went to sle...

We were doing some chatting in the comments about the Myers-Briggs personality test, and our results. I have an unhappy memory connected wit...

I'm sitting here happily eating radishes and salt (yes, it's the salt that appeals, I admit it) and listening to the Coffehouse inte...

I had a 3-hour business meeting yesterday, so no time to blog. Barely time to think! However, as per my usual, other than blogging I was qui...

Go see Sara's discussion on voice . She covered it much more coherently and completely than I did. Yesterday I decided to take a blog va...

A rather resounding silence. Hope you liked the story yesterday--I am just paranoid enough that the lack of any comments whatsoever makes me...

No time for a "real" post today, as I'm scrambling to pull together and submit my grad school application. {s} But I thought I...

All right, you convinced me: it is a little burnout. I'm going to take a 1-week "vacation" from works-in-progress to clear the...

Yesterday we generated quite a bit of excellent discussion about what fiction should be: deep or entertainment? Fortunately the consensus se...

I was having a discussion yesterday with someone who was claiming that in order for fiction to have value, it must have deeper meaning. The ...

My grandmother passed away early this morning. Dorothy Bertram Caward was an absolute kick, all of her life. She didn't really car...