The Original Drama Mama

I stopped by Crafty Chicks and loved the recent post about Halloween labels you can print and place on jars to creep up (or would that be out?) the candy and snacks. It was a great idea and the website CC mentions is really cool: The Official Love Manor (go take a look at their [...]

This will probably be my last MM for a month – NaNoWriMo kicks off at the end of the week; and I must devote all my writing time to achieving my insane literary goal. If you know of any great candidates for a future Monday Muse, tell me in the comments section or send me [...]

Right now I need to do this…my sanity depends on it. I need to reflect on some good things, big and small that make for a good life; cuz today was a bit on the crappy side. This morning my vacuum cleaner started shooting fireworks, then just decided to shut off – which I guess [...]

We said “Hi!” to Smitty Baby a few weeks back when I featured her as a Monday Muse. Meridith was kind enough to drop me a note letting me know she is having a sweet little contest over at her site in which you can win 2 (that’s right, not 1 but 2!) of her [...]

I can’t remember the Google search I was workin’ on when I stumbled across awesomeness from a galaxy far far away: apparently a contest had been held calling all nerds and artists to use their madskillz to create pastiches ala Lucas. This is the picture that first caught my eye in the Google image search: [...]

I was searching the web for creative Halloween Countdown Calendar ideas when I came across a site I knew would be great for today’s Monday Muse. Crafty Chicks is a collection of women (mostly Mamas, from what I can tell) who have some of the most wonderful ideas for all things crafty. Currently up on [...]

There are a lot of assumptions made about homeschoolers, and I believe one of them creates the image of a housebound kid who sits around all day and never gets any physical activity – after all, there is no gymnasium and no crabby p.e. teacher wearing bad shorts. (Well, I’m crabby sometimes, but I don’t [...]

I teach drama classes for kids, and often, lots of funny things happen. After all, as Bill Cosby could tell you, “Kids say the darndest things.” They also do the darndest things too. The other day, in the few minutes before class began, the kids in my drama class amused themselves by playing games. I [...]

… or clutch her hand and ask her to come home with me, or faint, or completely embarrass myself in a myriad  of other ways… Currently Diana is on a book tour promoting the recent release of the 7th (of at least 8, I think) novel in her Outlander series, Echo in The Bone. 4 [...]