Patience & Fortitude

Why I hate posting on 9/11

This is the obligatory 9/11 post that nearly every American blogger feels compelled to make on this anniversary. I’m not being cynical, although certainly it would be easy. Simply, every year, we are innundated with memorials to this tragedy, calling on our...

Grieving Futures, 2nd Edition on the way

Good news! I have found an excellent editor to give my book Grieving Futures a thorough going over! This is very exciting to me and marks real progress. A writer should always, always have a good editor at her back, but unfortunately when I first drafted out GF in...

Remembering is better than prayer

I was one of the thousands of fans whose morning was consumed by the release/leak of the Avengers movie gag reel. If you don’t know, just take my assurances about the fact that I am a crazy fangirl for the movie and let me just add #COULSONLIVES. But then I got...

Honesty, Integrity, and Robert Downey Jr.

A friend of mine recently tweeted about Robert Downey Jr., pointing to a vid clip where he talks openly and honestly about money-making in the movies, something most actors would rather cut their nose off than do. Our conversation about that tweet made me realize...

Times are changing!

I’ve not been updating the daily “Inspirational” because for the past week I’ve been in stunned haze, practically walking into walls. For a good reason, though: I have finished graduate school! I am graduating with my Master’s in Library...