I have a column up at the fab PopCultMag.com webzi… July 31, 2003
I have a column up at the fab PopCultMag.com webzine, owned and operated by my friend and former Metro Pulse editor, Coury Turczyn.
Spike Gillespie is one of my favorite pals, even t… July 30, 2003
Spike Gillespie is one of my favorite pals, even though we only see one another in person once every few years. She is also one of my favorite writers and I especially love this latest column of hers at AustinMama.com. In it, she discusses how often parents force their kids to allow other adults to violate their personal autonomy and boundaries in the guise of fostering good manners.
I’m a big believer in good manners (I’m one of the only people I know who insists that her kids say “Yes Ma’am” and “No Sir” to adults), but you will never find me instructing my kids to “Give Uncle Joe a hug” or “Be polite and sit on Aunt Martha’s lap.”
My favorite quote, possibly of all time: "I don… July 29, 2003
My favorite quote, possibly of all time:
“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”
- Lloyd Dobler
There is a nifty new attachment/natural parenting …
There is a nifty new attachment/natural parenting store in Memphis and online called Mothersville. Check it out.
I live in a slummy house in Sequoyah Hills and aft… July 27, 2003
I live in a slummy house in Sequoyah Hills and after months of trying to get my slumlady to repair stuff, I am moving out at the end of this week. The house already smells bad, floods, leaks, etc, etc, etc. A few days ago the central air went out. Now the house is sweltering. It is far hotter inside the house than it is outside the house. There is nothing to do but live with it until we move out next weekend and I have to say that I am totally miserable.
I’m still open to submissions for the anthology of… July 25, 2003
I’m still open to submissions for the anthology of essays about the experience of breastfeeding that I am shopping around. I’m interested in first person essays of between 700-2000 words that offer a unique perspetive on nursing…or not nursing your baby. If you would like to contribute, please drop me an email at kgranju@yahoo.com
Here is a call for submissions from my friend and … July 21, 2003
Here is a call for submissions from my friend and fellow writermama, Ericka Lutz:
Call for Fiction Submissions
(Please share widely!!)
Literary Mama, a new online literary journal, seeks
good fiction by writers who are mothers, about
parenting. Stories should be:
* Centered around parenting.
* Written by writers who are also self-identified
mothers: biological, non-biological, step,
transgendered, adoptive.
Guidelines:
* Stories or stand-alone novel excerpts up to 7,000
words.
* Reprints okay (so long as you have the rights).
* Standard response time from 3-5 weeks. Manuscripts
are read year round except for June and December.
* Simultaneous submissions okay as long as you notify
us if accepted elsewhere.
* Electronic submissions only (see address below).
What we tend to like:
* Writing that hurts – to write, to read.
* Superior craft.
* Stories with strong narrative structure, great
characters, interesting settings, beautiful language,
complicated themes.
* Fiction at a flat-out, heart-racing run.
* Fiction that meanders slowly and irrevocably.
* Ambiguity, complexity, depth, thoughtfulness,
delicacy, humor, irreverence, sincerity; the elegant
and the raw.
What we tend not to like:
* Cloying, soft-focus, overly-epiphanous fiction.
* Lack of development, lack of clarity.
How to submit:
Please send attachments as MSWord or RTF files to
EditorEricka@yahoo.com and enclose a brief cover
letter.
We look forward to reading your work!
Look at this cute picture of my seven year old dau…
Look at this cute picture of my seven year old daughter Jane competing in a recent horseshow. And here is another picure taken last Saturday of Jane and her pony.
I’m quoted in the Edinburgh (Scotland) News today …
I’m quoted in the Edinburgh (Scotland) News today on the topic of the 12 year old girl who ran off with an American man she met on the Internet.
I was feeling rather blue this weekend until my br… July 14, 2003
I was feeling rather blue this weekend until my brother-in-law showed me
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I have a new column up for your reading pleasure. … July 11, 2003
I have a new column up for your reading pleasure. It’s about my view that we Americans don’t offer our babies enough babying but treat older kids and teenagers like babies for far too long.
Let me know what you think (see guestbook above).
–KATIE
I have two 8 week old purebred Persian kittens ava… July 9, 2003
I have two 8 week old purebred Persian kittens available for adoption - free - to excellent homes. You must agree that they will be indoor cats only and that they will be spayed/neutered within 6 months.
I have a black kitten (we think a female) and a tabby (we think a male). Both have beautiful, long Persian coats. The mother is our tabby Exotic Shorthair and the papa is our Himalayan.
And before anyone sends me emails about how I shouldn’t have allowed kittens to be born, don’t. I agree with you. We waited too long to get Moses neutered. He’s neutered now 
If interested, email me at kgranju@yahoo.com
You must live within driving distance of Knoxville, TN
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the tens of t…
I’ve been reading a lot lately about the tens of thousands of
polygamist fundamentalists who live in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado. I don’t think that polygamy in and of itself should be any of the government’s business, but the problem is that as it is practiced in these huge, right wing cults, teenage girls are basically enslaved to their “husbands” and then raped and turned into baby machines. The governments of these states and municipalities are totally aware of this happening under their noses and do nothing to stop it.
A very sad and interesting case is that of teenagerRuby Jessop. She ran away from her polygamous family last year when she was told she was to be given as a “wife” to a man more than twice her age with many other “wives.” When she was located by child welfare authorities, she was handed back over to her parents. The only sightings of her since that time have been in a local town where she was surrounded by other people from the cult and was clearly pregnant.
The paralells between what happened to poor Elizabeth Smart and this girl are clear and disturbing, but unfortunately for Ruby, her biological father is not a well-to-do, mainstream Mormon, but an abusive, polygamous member of a large Mormon breakaway sect that insists that all teenage girls are given away to other men in the group as sex slaves.
I saw what I believe to have been the worst kids’ … July 8, 2003
I saw what I believe to have been the worst kids’ movie in cinematic history last night. And truly, I’m not that picky and wasn’t expecting much in the first place.
