Author Archives: Alice
20 Years Later
If I hadn’t done it, I could be a grandmother now, she thought. That family over there – grandmother, son, and grandson; I could have had that. Or maybe it would have been a girl. No. I’m sure that lump of protoplasm would have been a boy. A son. He might have made me proud, if I hadn’t done it. The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story in exactly 55 words. Click on the […]
13 Places I Have Found Stray Socks
The kids get mad at me when I don’t keep their socks washed, then go and stuff them in the weirdest place. I have found them in: 1. In the very tip of a shoe. The shoe did not belong to the same person as the sock. 2. Scattered around the living room. 3. The Girl had a huge pile of them under her bed. 4. Under my bed. No matter how many times I tell the kids not to […]
Ah Maria, How Badly Do You Want It?
In order to save Austria, Queen Maria Theressa was willing to part ways with centuries of tradition. Witness what happened when she made Wenzel Anton Kaunitz a diplomat. Wenzel Anton Kaunitz was a native Austrian. The sixth of sixteen children to an aristocratic father who served the crown as an ambassador. Raised in Morovia, where the family estates were located, young Wenzel was groomed for a career in the church. After giving it a go he decided on a different […]
Sweet Contest
The Girl’s school had a fundraiser, and now I have something I have no use for. Would you like them? I’ll send them to a lucky commenter picked by The Girl next Friday. Come back to this post to see who the winner is.
How to Draw Manga Eyes
I wanted to show you some how to sew stuff today. The Girl cut out a cute jacket which I would love to share with you, but I forgot to take pictures. Weird of me, I know. Anyway, I mentioned to The Girl that I messed up. She suggested that I do a how to draw thing instead. Mr. Al, The Girl and I have all gotten into manga in the last couple of years. Manga is Japanese graphic novels. […]
Who is Sweet?
Today’s theme is Sweet Previously in Jack and Jill: Fresh Catch The rules for Photohunt can be found here. Be sure to visit the home page. Yeah, the picture’s a re-run. I was planning on something involving Jack eating a pickle, then decided this was sweeter. *shrug*
Suzie’s House 158: Hairy Considerations
The day before a meet always made Drew nervous. Up until a couple of years ago, the cases he handled involved sexual predators. He would pretend to be a sweet, teenage girl, set up a meet, then turn up as the clean cut FBI agent he really was. This was different. He stood in front of his bathroom mirror and rubbed the stubble on his chin, then fingered the four inches of hair hanging down over his forehead. Would it […]
