Christa Allan

1. I’m so impressed that a woman who’s just moving into a new home can find time to be interviewed! Congrats on the remodeling (been there, done that, never want to again). How does one continue to write during this upheaval? Well, I haven’t–except for journaling. I know I’ll use it later!
2. Let’s see…you’re [...]

Please, someone, tell me this is an advertising campaign that’s meant to be the butt of someone’s joke…word is Times Square will have a billboard of bare behinds with superimposed smiley faces (well, thank goodness for THAT…) on July 1. The ad site is Moons Over Manhattan. Geeze.
You gotta watch this! [...]

Wednesday, Jun 27
FBI Tracks Down Lost Manuscript of THE GOOD EARTH

If you’re of a certain age, Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE GOOD EARTH was considered to be required reading (the book hasn’t aged all that well, so those of my generation and younger haven’t been exposed to the book in schools or gone [...]

(Thanks to Laurel Wreath for allowing me to post this!)
Ken and I are in St. Tammany Parish today so that I can complete my paperwork to return to Fontainebleau High School (Vanna…can I buy a vowel??)!
Beginning August 8, I will be returning to Fontainebleau High School in Mandeville after teaching at Barbe High School for [...]

The New York Times reports that Sakura Adachi, a furniture designer in Milan, is the inventor of The Cave, which allows readers to curl up in a form-fitting seat, surrounded by their beloved books. Sitting in this upholstered niche is supposed to make a reader feel secluded - akin to being lost among a college [...]

Update from blog: FIRST CONTESTANT ON AMERICAN IDIOT SHOW…
Roy Pearson’s really steamed now because the owners of the cleaners hung him out to dry.  He not only lost his suit, he’s been ordered to pay the court costs for the Chungs. 
Wonder how many pairs of pants that would have bought Judge Pearson…

Attention all prayer warriors:
Please slip in a request during your next prayers for the sale of either one or both of our homes.  We have  pre-Katrina and  post-Katrina homes; each one in a different city.
The epic story/saga/odyssey will follow in some other post.

Things I found out about myself today: (with thanks to Laurel Wreath for mentioning these creative procrastinations found at Susie Pie’s blog who found them at mingle!)

I have a 75% addiction to coffee

My chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse are only 32%.

My blog is rated PG-13 because of the following:
limbs-mentioned 4 times; death-mentioned [...]

Evolution of Dance
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1. We admit that we are powerless over our grading and planning and reading and quite incapable of keeping up, that our lives have become unmanageable.
2. We’ve come to believe there better be a higher power that can restore us to sanity or become a Zen Buddhist so we can just accept insanity as the [...]

I found a new way to torture my children.
Until Lisa Samson sent me an invitation to join Facebook, I didn’t know that random adult-ish people were allowed to join.  So, in the interest of providing a place to advertise my writer-self…you know…online presence and all that, I joined Facebook.
Wow.  My kids think I’m stalking them [...]

I returned Monday afternoon from Daytona Beach, thus finishing my third year being an AP Reader for the English Language test.
Here’s the microwave background: The College Board offers Advanced Placement courses for 37 subjects. High school students take an AP test that, depending on the score, may earn them college credits. Regardless of whether the [...]

I visited Michael and Lesley and my granddaughters yesterday.
Of course, I continue to be smitten with Emma Renee. At the age of two, she is quite the talker (hmm…suppose that’s hereditary?). I really want to record her because just the sound of her voice delights me. When she looks at me through those sea [...]

Michael holding Hannah Grace, Emma’s sister, born on June 12th!

HANNAH GRACE CONTEMPLATING HER NEW UNIVERSE.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
(a longer post when I return from Florida…)

Hi Christa! Thanks for inviting me to your blog today!
1. If you’re planning to attend the ACFW Conference, I’d like to be able to introduce you to someone without having to say, “Hi, meet Debby G.” A plea for a phonetic pronunciation of your last name! My last name always stumps people so [...]

Thanks to blog Books and Coffee for the heads up on this:
Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder
“The presence of NADD in your life is directly related to how you’ve dealt with the media deluge of the new millennium. You’ve likely gone one of three ways:
1) You’ve checked out… you don’t own a TV and it’s unlikely [...]