roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: January 2015
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2015_01_01_archive.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Saturday, January 24, 2015. On this day one year ago I saw my husband for the last time. I didn't lose him, like a pair of sunglasses or the spare house key. He didn't leave me, for there was no abandonment. We said goodbye that morning like any other, but more carelessly. It was a Friday, a short workday for him. He would be home in a few hours. But he wasn't. So, this is the obituary he should have had: his requiem. Sit back, because this could get long. He was a perfecti...
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: January 2014
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2014_01_01_archive.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Hand it around first, and cut it after.". I admit to having rather high hopes for 2014. First of all, for those who are still unaware, my husband and I are expecting a baby sometime around the end of January. And yes, in spite of my less-than-pleased reactions to unwanted belly-touching and overly personal questions from near-strangers, i am. Things. Silly or not, I feel more freedom in my writing if I don't categorize it from the beginning bu...
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: April 2012
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A Panegyric. There is nothing hidden. They've seen me at my worst and at my best. My friend Jocelyn and I used to say that you had to be yourself in class because it is impossible to hide anything under those clothes. I believe that statement began in a physical sense, in reference to some people's use of padding on certain parts of the anatomy, but it works in the psychological sense as well. :-). Links to this post.
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: Warning: Rant Ahead
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2013/05/warning-rant-ahead.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Friday, May 31, 2013. I have something to say.obviously. Our local paper prints a weekly column by nationally syndicated humor columnist Tom Purcell. I admit, I usually don't read it at all, and I really don't know why I read it yesterday.but I did. It's an older article, originally printed in 2006 I believe. Mr Purcell (in 2006) has a problem.men are starting to carry "man bags" and he fears the imminent destruction of masculinity and all it stands for. My father’s w...
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: February 2012
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. I did some readings too, some from our alphabet book, some from books they had in the classrooms, and I brought Edward Lear's poem, The Jumblies. Links to this post. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. To Tweet Or Not To Tweet. I know Twitter is old news. I have become painfully aware of late that for an author peddling their wares to not. I don't want to! Why am I feeling so rebellious on this subject? 1 Time, obviously, and complication. 3 I have a c...
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: "Hand it around first, and cut it after."
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2014/01/hand-it-around-first-and-cut-it-after.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Thursday, January 2, 2014. Hand it around first, and cut it after.". I admit to having rather high hopes for 2014. First of all, for those who are still unaware, my husband and I are expecting a baby sometime around the end of January. And yes, in spite of my less-than-pleased reactions to unwanted belly-touching and overly personal questions from near-strangers, i am. Things. Silly or not, I feel more freedom in my writing if I don't categorize it from the beginning bu...
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: "By Water and Blood" teaser!
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2013/05/by-water-and-blood-teaser.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Thursday, May 16, 2013. By Water and Blood" teaser! So here it is: a little taste of By Water and Blood,. Five years ago, Sophie Durrant surprised herself and her friends by dropping out of college and taking a job as a bartender on a tiny island at the end of the world, knowing only that for once in her life she felt that she was home. Her heritage calls to her, by water and blood. But there are other secrets, darker than any legend, and their keepers are not forgiving.
roseandwren.blogspot.com
Musings of a Renaissance Girl: Requiem
http://roseandwren.blogspot.com/2015/01/requiem.html
Musings of a Renaissance Girl. Saturday, January 24, 2015. On this day one year ago I saw my husband for the last time. I didn't lose him, like a pair of sunglasses or the spare house key. He didn't leave me, for there was no abandonment. We said goodbye that morning like any other, but more carelessly. It was a Friday, a short workday for him. He would be home in a few hours. But he wasn't. So, this is the obituary he should have had: his requiem. Sit back, because this could get long. He was a perfecti...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT