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Category Archives: Humor
The Key to Lawn (and Self) Mowing
Thought for the Week We’d bought our first house with a yard, and I was excited about mowing! I got over that quick. Still, if ya got grass, ya gotta mow, and that means: 1) You have to cut it … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Quips and Quotes, For Pastors and Teachers, Religion/Faith, Memoir
Tagged wisdom, funny, motivation, Isaiah 40:8, discipleship
23 Comments
Alone. But Not Alone.
Photo by Annie Spratt The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Feeling completely alienated from their friends and from one another, Gina … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged adventure, Chronicles of Narnia, Disney, fantasy, forgiveness, love, siblings, teenagers
4 Comments
We’re Havin’ a Heatwave!
So, this is spring? A month before summer officially begins here we started experiencing near-record heat, with temperatures rivaling peak summer days and not a rain cloud in sight. The ground is fractured, the shrubs are slouching, and our little … Continue reading
Tips for Writers: Making Gradual Miracles
Cloudzilla! A sign from God? “The only kind of writing is rewriting.” ~Ernest Hemingway Five years ago, I got the good news that, after a one year delay, my comedy monster movie Notzilla had been greenlighted (received financing)! The not-so-good … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Writing
Tagged creativity, editing, Ernest Hemingway, inspiration, motivation, Notzilla, perseverance, tips for writers
40 Comments
Playing the Field
My Real Memoir By age 16 my infatuation with girls had gone malarial; no net could contain me. I flirted shamelessly with anyone and everyone I found attractive. I never mentioned other girls to my pen pal Judy, for example. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged acting, dating, high school, My Real Memoir, romance, teenagers, theatre, young love
36 Comments
Mockery Cuts Deep
The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Gina and her brother Zack had completely alienated one another. And now they were facing … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged C.S. Lewis, fantasy, funny, mockery, snarky, teenage girls, Walt Disney, young adult
5 Comments
Unintentional Irony
Irony: it’s everywhere we look. Except when we’re actually looking for it. Which is rather ironic, actually. Humans are the most ironic creatures on earth–and probably in the rest of the universe, for that matter–both intentionally and unintentionally. As Deteriorata, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Quips and Quotes
Tagged funny, irony, National Lampoon, Oscar Wilde, photoblog, photography, sarcasm, witty
32 Comments
Just Mitch
My Real Memoir God believed in me. Even though, by my teens, I’d decided he didn’t exist and had come to consider believers rather simple-minded. Still, I could be tactfully dodgy. I told my pen pal Judy I believed in … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Quips and Quotes
Tagged 1960s, funny, God, love, My Real Memoir, peace, The Diary of Anne Frank
38 Comments
The Art of Bullying
The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Zack and Gina had accidentally scattered the mysterious objects all over … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, The Wishing Map
Tagged adventure, bully, C.S. Lewis, fantasy, magical, middle school, teenagers, young adult
6 Comments