We made it back to good ole Indiana after a LONG day in the car. Makes me very grateful we don’t have to do it the old fashioned way — covered wagon would be too rough. Since I’m way too tired to post anything creative, I direct you to the Writer Interrupted Carnival of Christian Writers. Each month Gina Conroy …
So you wanna be a lawyer….
I’m a new contributor over at the Keep Me in Suspense blog. I’ll be writing a column once or twice a month about the legal system. The first post went up today…my pet peeves with legal vocabulary used incorrectly. Be sure to check it out. I made another research trip today. It’s amazing what you can find when you get …
What a Difference a Judge Makes
Today the US Supreme Court issued an opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart upholding the federal ban on partial birth abortion. For some reason, blogger won’t allow me to insert a link, but here’s one place you can go to read the opinion: http://supreme.usatoday.findlaw.com/supreme_court/2006/november/05-38-gonzales-v-carhart.html. In the federal law, Congress had made a determination that a health exception wasn’t necessary to preserve …
Research Joy!
Yesterday I drove 475 miles round trip to conduct on site research for Sandhill Dreams. Fort Robinson is way up in the corner of Nebraska, tucked near South Dakota and Wyoming. It is remote country, but God’s country. Absolutely beautiful though very remote. I hadn’t been in that corner of the world for about 12 years, since working on a …
Watching the News…
Monday was one of those days that will live in infamy. If you turned on the news, you probably saw non-stop coverage of the shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech. From the first moment I saw the ticker crawling across the bottom of Fox News Channel, my heart dropped and it hasn’t fully recovered. As a writer, one of the things …
Travel Tales
This weekend we logged 979 miles on the car. That’s a lot of time in the car. Highlights so far: Abigail lost a tooth last night: She took this one out herself. She had lots of time to twist that tooth while she sat in the backseat. We joined 55,000 of our closest friends at the Nebraska football spring scrimmage. …
Waxing Thoughtful?
Have you ever been in one of those places? You know the ones. You don’t necessarily like your outlook, but you can’t figure out how you got there and why you’re there. Earlier this week I was in the middle of one of those slumps. It’s been two and a half months since my miscarriage, and it amazes me just …
Are you a Shopoholic?
I found this the other day, and had fun with the questions. One thing my friends know about me is that I lvoe teh thrill of the hunt — for a good bargain that is. So I wasn’t surprised to be labeled a window shopper. To me shopping is relaxing. Ahh. Wishing I was at the Talbotts’ sale now 🙂 …
Bits & Pieces
You may not have seen this. On Easter, USAToday online ran a story about one consequence of international adoptions. Children who are adopted by Americans sometimes leave siblings behind, and right now there really isn’t a mechanism in place to even allow visitation. And the Vonage trial. If you like your phone service through the Internet, especially Vonage, then you …
Training Lessons
Training Lessons… I’m in the middle of training for the Indianapolis mini-marathon. No, not a full marathon. A mini one – just 13.1 miles. But plenty far I think. During law school I had a couple friends who ran marathons, and then and there I decided I should do the same thing. Law school had pushed my brain as far …