• life,  thoughts

    Self-Responsibility

    Ah, that ever elusive topic of being responsible for oneself. Self responsibility seems like a rarity these days. Recently I overheard a woman explaining to a group of people why she got a DUI. Because, you know, it wasn’t really her fault. No, she was driving along, minding her own business when she swerved (on accident) and the oncoming car…

  • the writing life,  thoughts

    Another Lifted Blog Prompt

    Yes, I’m lifting blog prompts again. Can’t help it – I run across them and think to myself, “Hey, I have something to say about that.” Today’s lifted blog prompt is about a writer’s image. As the ‘celebrity’ networking, blogging, twittering rules go — don’t talk smack about others, don’t be a downer, don’t constantly talk about things you dislike…

  • A Malkuth of Me,  rants,  thoughts

    A Woman’s Worth

    In the past few days I’ve found myself in several discussions about what it means to be a woman in the United States. Evidently some conservative women now believe that us liberal feminists (neither of which are bad words unless they escape the lips of a conservative) are down on stay-at-home-moms and are somehow marginalizing the job of being a…

  • rants,  thoughts

    Who’s Your Daddy?

    I think I posted once, many months ago, about how we can sometimes end up guilty by association. With social networking, and especially with people like me who use social networking to reach the widest audience possible, I have no doubt many of us are unfairly judged by who we may have chosen to “friend” or even “unfriend”.  I have…

  • Audrey Brice,  book news,  books,  news,  novels,  Updates

    Into Darkness

     Into Darkness by Audrey Brice No good deed goes uncursed. When I agree to take some old ritual gear off of a local Order member, of course I end up with a cursed amulet. That’s just my luck. My name is Elizabeth Tanner and I’m a magician, and now my new boyfriend and I are suspects in a murder we…