Have You Heard of This Woman? Published on August 11, 2013 by Marica I came across this while skimming through one of my newest– and newer (1978)– crappy old books, Webster’s Encyclopedia of Dictionaries: 12 Complete Dictionaries in One. It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man– the struggle between a proud mind and an empty
This is interesting, at least to me, not because of my little rant, but what follows– a short conversation between Missy, Rocky, and I. The very first Big Dawg Jawin’ post was in 2013. I see three years later I still had not gotten around to doing he said/she said. Made for difficult reading, so
I need to rededicate myself to promoting Miss Missy’s School. To that end I’m going to re-post a few things about the book. Your mentions, re-posts, shares and so on would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! [Update on James Robert Peery. Still working on things. Waiting to hear back from the local librarian.] Miss Missy’s
If you read Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School, please leave a review at the site of purchase or at Goodreads! The Epilogue to which the reviewer refers is the final chapter in the book, “Epilogue: Old Things & Ways Explained.” These entries, organized by chapter, explain in
Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of farm Dogs Starts a School (2021) is so much more than an endearing family story. It’s also a place for children and their grownups to learn! From the Introduction, “A Letter from Marica to you” “I hope you make some new friends here at Miss Missy’s School! Before
As part of the marketing strategy for my new book, Miss Missy’s School: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School, I’d like to introduce– or in some cases, reacquaint– you to Missy and Rocky. I’ll be posting several short short stories about them, and a character called ‘Marica,’ outside the context of the book.
but I thought since you’re coming along with me on my little self-publishing adventure, you’d get a kick out of this. Let’s hone in on this, and do a spot of research. Find out which best-selling authors you write like Now, taken at face value, this could be rephrased as, “Of whose work is yours
As a follow up to Let’s chat about the business of books I get at least a half-dozen of these type emails each day. The split between including valuable information and trying to sell something is probably 30/70. I’m am hopelessly old fashioned, thinking that somewhere in all this there’s a reader. Back to work!
…while meeting with governors to discuss wildfire prevention on the White House Campus in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. Why would someone meet with governors to discuss wildfires in Washington, District of Columbia?
For your amusement, a few (draft) lines of a scene from Miss Missy’s School Days Book II of the Miss Missy’s School series I know. You’re wondering how in the world Lawyer wound up at the Farm, aren’t you? Well, I guess you’ll just have to wait for Book II! Miss Missy’s School DaysPublished through
Shined vs. shone The verb shine has two main definitions: (1) to emit light, and (2) to cause to gleam by polishing. In its first sense, shine traditionally becomes shone in the past tense and as a past participle. In its second sense, shine is traditionally inflected shined. So, for example, we might say, “The sun shone brightly while I shined my shoes.” “In 21st-century writing, however, the distinction
What a predicament. I need about 500 words or so about the Phoenicians. It starts with “The Phoenicians were an ancient people” and needs to end with the alphabet. How hard could that be? Two days of virtually nothing hard, that’s how hard. Part of the issue is that– and I’m not making this up–
There are a lot of things I understand. This is not one. Don’t you think that when one is writing about writing one’s written words should be grammatical? Click X and move on.
This was yesterday, before we got an inch of rain that cooled things down. That’s a real LOL statement right there. This minute I’m having a dilemma. I have not had my sufficiency and fanciful of coffee yet. But the thought of hot liquids is not appealing. Time to switch to iced coffee. The book
Well, good morning to all of you! I’d thought I’d take a minute and bring you up to speed on the book– mine, not Missy’s, though she tells me her new book is coming along nicely. Mr. Big Food and I were talking about her new work just yesterday. He was very interested. He especially
Art work by Daughter C “Hey, Missy? Do you have a minute?” Marica asked. “Sure, Marica. What can I help you with?” Missy looked up from an enormous pile of open books on her desk. “How’s your book doing?” “Well,” said Missy, “I’ve still quite a number of researches to do, especially with regard to
Good day of research. Learned some stuff about armadillos. Occurs to me that an armadillos’ shells are probably not hard at birth (that would hurt), and so harden over the course of the two month suckling phase of growth. More research is in order. This is an instant classic line from Manny, the little armadillo
Good morning! Sorry for the absence. I have entered research mode. I will be doing background reading and taking notes to prepare to write Miss Missy’s School Days. The book on the left if Tom Brown’s School Days by An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes, 1857). Hughes (1822-1896) was educated at Rugby. The headmaster at the
From the internet… “This Dean is implying that students are not capable of good writing!” This Dean is implying that students are not capable of good writing well! Sorry. I just couldn’t let that slide. Had the subject been something other than writing… maybe.
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