On any given Sunday, you might be sitting in the front row at Mass, trying to look like a respectable family who actually has any business giving a presentation on faithful parenting later that afternoon, when your three-year-old flings himself to the floor and wails. And when asked what’s wrong, his response might be: “I’m…
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Ordinary Love
I am hopeless romantic at heart–a sucker for a great kiss in a movie or a book, hopelessly sentimental about stories where new love is found alongside other adventures. But I’m also becoming ever more aware of how easy it is to take an oversimplified, overdramatized, and romanticized view of love and trying to measure…
Read MoreMe, My Boy, and the Words on the Page
I wrote my first story in the fourth grade, in the back seat of the “new bus” (at that time, my rural Catholic school had two bus routes; I was on number 2) with my second cousin. We knelt on the floor and used the vinyl seats as a desk. We were writing fan fiction.…
Read MoreUnmoored
A little after one in the morning, I woke from a dream in which I had just given birth to eight babies. In the manner of dreams, of course, I had no physical symptoms of recent birth, but all the same I sat there in a state of deep stress as I tried to figure…
Read MoreMedical Drama and Other QTs
-1- It has been a week of medical drama. Julianna has had a cold for two weeks, which didn’t really process until her cough got worse Monday night. I don’t worry about her health very often anymore, but for some reason this time I worried. I took her to the doctor to make sure she…
Read MoreAccountability
Accountability is not a sexy concept in modern life. But it works.
Read MoreIn Which Writing and Reading Makes Me Appreciate My Marriage
I’ve been outlining a new novel lately–no, outlining is too glamorous a word. I’ve been brainstorming a character and a scenario to try to make them unique and interesting enough to be marketable. At the same time, I’ve been reading a lot: epic fantasy, nonfiction, women’s fiction. Reading is different now than it once was.…
Read MoreRandom Unconnected Thoughts For A Wednesday
1. If I ever write a memoir, I think I will call it Snuggles With Batman. 2. I have been running around town this week in the incessant rain-drizzle-downpour-deluge-drip with Michael wearing his Batman jacket. It’s supposed to be a 3T but, well, you can see how it fits. He calls the hood his “helmet.”…
Read MoreThe Big News
Friday morning when I came home from Jazzercise, speech therapy, and a Wal Mart run, this is what greeted me: Today I’m focusing on a final whirlwind run through my manuscript to make sure it’s clean so I can send it out. See you Wednesday!
Read MoreGoing Dark
I have quite a few projects in the hopper right now, and some of them are pretty big. More and more lately I have been finding myself searching for the quick post rather than the substantive, just to make sure I have something up. But while I was trying to figure out what to blog…
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Kathleen M. Basi 