Financially we are still a ways out from adopting but we're working on paperwork and the baby's room. I've been thinking for a while now that I'd like to decorate the walls with children's picture book covers or images of the same. More recently I broadened that idea to include pages from picture books. I was going to visit our local second hand ( Read more... )

I recently finished reading the John Cleaver Series by Dan Wells which recently lead me to thoughts about funeral homes. The thought originated was while I was driving past a field that looked like it would make a great cemetery. I thought about all the rows of embalmed bodies in caskets in cement vaults that lay in a cemetery. I think I would like ( Read more... )

I've been re-reading Robin McKinley's Beauty (based on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast). I had an odd thought today as I was reading where Beauty goes with her father to the enchanted castle...what if Beauty had been blind? I think a blind Beauty would be just as willing to go to spare her father. Plus she could say she wouldn't be as ( Read more... )