Monthly Archives: August 2010
Soft Susurrations
(This is a somewhat random picture, but I’m counting it as a TRP) Her voice Ebbing and flowing like waves of a calm sea Marks the passing of a nap like the tick of a clock. She’s with friends in another room, Sharing the comfortable thoughts Of a social creature Until Silence. He sits up, fully awake. What is wrong? Her voice returns. Oh. A pause in the conversation. He rolls over and sleeps. The challenge, should you choose to […]
A Random 13
I’m in the mood for a word association thing. 1. Hot 2. humid 3. watermelon (Just got a good one. The Girl is getting good at picking them out) 4. seed spitting contest 5. book contest 6. last chance at Packing Heat 7. fun reads 8. friends 9. blog 10. hop 11. on one foot 12. limp 13. biscuit Totally Random Picture:
Ah Maria, She’s the Most Powerful Woman in France
Maria Theressa of Austria sent her daughter, Marie Antoinette, off to France with little preparation and many fears. Prince Louis didn’t help matters when he put off the consummation for years. Wrote Maria to Marie on the subject of getting her husband to…cooperate…so to speak. “On no account any peevishness, but only tenderness and caresses; for too much eagerness could ruin everything. Gentleness and patience are the only things that can help. Nothing so far is lost. You are both […]
Win a Copy of Packing Heat by Penny McCall
FBI Agent Harmony Swift looks like a blond bimbo from L.A., but she’s got a good head on her shoulders. She can out- shoot, out-drive, out-boat, and out-think everyone from a corrupt FBI department head to the Russian mafia. It’s only natural she should end up with a genius computer guy who looks like every woman’s wet dream. And all she has to do to get him is break him out of jail, convince him to trust a bureau that […]
Mr. Impatience.
“Mom, hurry up. My girlfriend’s waiting and you said we’d go soon. What do you mean you need a shower first? Just throw a shirt over your night gown and let’s go already!” Monkey Man hosts the 160 Character Challenge. See what you can write in 160 characters or less, spaces included.
Ah Maria, It Was Merely a Tiff
Having inadvertently raisied Marie Antoinette to have strong, puritanical notions, there was little her mother could do to make her understand the special place of a king’s mistress. “The Court of Versailles was beside itself with delight at the spectacle of this child setting herself up against the King’s mistress, therefore, against Louis himself.” And this was what Marie Antoinette could not grasp. She was too young and too un-worldly to understand what Madame Dubarry meant to King Louis. As […]
