Yep, the busy bug has bit me.  I've been lucky to find time to write anything at all and no fiction has made the cut lately.  I miss it so badly that it's bound to be in my list of New Year's goals this year.

BUT, I have managed a few blog posts lately.  Please stop by The Good Girl to check them out.  My travel blog, The Long Way Home is especially nice, I think.  Though it's hard to top the comedy of the Christmas tree.

I wish all of my friends in MySpace land a merry Christmas season and I hope I'll be back before the big day actually hits to catch up on your lives, as well!  Missing you as I go,
Beki

I do, I really do love Leonard Cohen.  And I don't care who knows it.  If he comes to your city, GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!

Do you know there's not a category up there for "literature?"  Or even "books?"  Like no one on MySpace would possibly READ and post a review or something???  Have I ranted about this before?  Then I'll save it today.

The post on the website today isn't really, really about literature anyway.  It's about the dog.  The devil dog.  Chadam, to be specific.  He's not in big trouble, though.  I blame myself, really.


The Good Girl

I watched, I screamed, I posted.

And at some point tonight, I'll be able to sleep.  Maybe.

New Blog I put up earlier today and forgot to post about over here!  You guys are always so much fun to write for, but I've been having a writing problem today so my brain is running at, oh, roughly half capacity.  Maybe a little less.

Check it Out, Please!

AND if anyone who enjoys reading women's fiction would be interested in helping me out by reading and offering an honest opinion of the first act of a manuscript (about a hundred pages give or take) I'm working on revising, please contact me about that.  I'd love the feedback of other writers, particularly, but readers are ALWAYS good too.  Let me know! 

You'll never believe it, but -- there's actually a really good new TV show.  AND it doesn't seem to be in danger of cancellation! 

GLEE

Oh, it's a post about WRITING.  My very favorite kind! 

Could we please, for the love of all that's good about America, stop freaking out over the President addressing our nation's classrooms? It's not like he's the only one to ever do it:

On November 14, 1988, Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. Several times Reagan went off on spiels about the wonders of lowering taxes. According to press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, the speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “to schools nationwide on three different days.” By the way, I remember seeing this when I was in high school.

On October 1, 1991, George H. W. Bush pitches his education plan in a speech broadcast to school classrooms nationwide. Bush’s speech was delivered on the eve of his presidential re-election campaign, and although it did contain some inspirational rhetoric, significant portions of it were focused toward promoting his own education plan. A conspiracy theorist might even claim Bush’s goal was to influence parents to vote for him by "indoctrinating" their children.

If he were to follow these Republican examples, Obama SHOULD be pushing the kids to go on home and talk their folks into voting with the Dems. But what IS the message? Stay in school and do great things for yourself! Oh, boy, what terrifying rhetoric. We sure don't want our babies exposed to that kind of liberal thinking. Who knows where they might go if they start thinking like that!

As for the lesson plans that apparently were scrapped once the wolves began their howling, all I can say is it's a weird day in America when Republicans are against young people doing what they can to serve their country. But I guess that only applies if their children serve their country in a way their parents see fit. Don't you wonder if the parents think their kids will ever be safe to think for themselves? Aren't these the same parents who were screaming only a couple short years ago that if you didn't stand with the President, you weren't a real American?

But again, that's only when it's "their" President, right? Not one who might take us down the primrose path of (actual) compassion for fellow man and hope that we might get out from under the stifling thumb of the insurance giants. We're really only supposed to put up all our tax dollars to help big corporations out of a bind, not fellow Americans. They can prosper or fail for themselves.