This Week's Fan Fiction

Josie's Revenge

an Another World sillyfic

After So Many Years

a Betsy-Tacy story

Unsuited to Each Other
Chapter 3 is now up

Cigar

I''d like to share an incident I witnessed years ago.  

There was a luncheonette in my neighborhood where I often ate.  Everyone on the staff was polite to me.   The waitress brought my toast cut and buttered, no questions asked.

One morning I went there for breakfast.  The area I sat in had two tables

next to each other.  At the table in front of me sat a woman and a baby in a highchair.   At the table next to theirs sat a man whose breakfast (which included eggs sunnyside up) had already been served.

The man lit a cigar, even though we were in a nonsmoking section.

"Excuse me," the woman said, "but this is a nonsmoking area."

"So?" the guy asked.

"So please put out your cigar.  The smoke is bothering my baby."

I'll never forget what happened next, what that jerk did.

"Oh, yeah?" he said...

 and then he BLEW THE SMOKE INTO THE BABY'S FACE!!!!

The mother stood up, and seconds later that creep was WEARING

his breakfast!

Good for that mother!

Where Silence is Not Golden « The Gospel in the Digital Age

Where Silence is Not Golden « The Gospel in the Digital Age

I had to share this!

I Still Have It

By "it" I mean that cold that came on Saturday.  But, thank God I haven't had stomach cramps this time, and thank God I have plenty of chicken broth!

Fan Fiction and Originality

There are people... including some fan fiction writers... who say that works of fan fiction are not original, because the writers thereof are building on someone else's material.

Well, I do not agree with this. Yes, we are using material originated by others, but we are using it in a new way. 

If I were to design and sew a dress (not very likely), it would be

an original work, even though I did not weave the material myself.

The way I see, originality isn't so much using new material as it is using the material at hand in a new way, and adding a few personal touches.

New Fanfiction.net Category

At my request, (brag brag brag) the Books category on fanfiction.net now has a Betsy-Tacy sub-category.
I had a story ready and waiting, and I've already submitted it.

It will be on my This Week's Fan Fiction list.

The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived??? NO!!!!! The Greatest Woman Who Ever Lived.... YES!!!!!

H.G. Wells once called Margaret Sanger "the greatest woman who ever lived."  
He could not have been more WRONG!!!

The greatest woman who ever lived is also the humblest woman

who ever lived... the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose birth we celebrate today.

Here is the Collect for today's feast.

Impart to your servants, we pray, O Lord,

the gift of heavenly grace,

that the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

may bring deeper peace

for those for whom the birth of her Son

was the dawning of salvation.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,

who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

one God, for ever and ever.

– Amen.