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DISCLAIMER: This is not about investing for your direct financial security but investing in our common future, If interested, continue with this discussion of a new path toward Investing in a Progressive Future.
Political Mutual Funds
It is a complex challenge to decide how to donate money. There are so many important issues and causes. There are so many dedicated, hard-working, well-run and effective organizations. There are so many appeals for money, from slick to ham-handed. And, well, some of the slickest come from those not necessarily dedicated, hard-working, well-run or effective. Thus, the emergence of efforts like Charity Navigator.
When it comes to investing money, mutual funds claim to reduce by grouping together companies, enabling one to choose a sector to invest in or a style of investing rather than seeking to find the perfect individual stocks and creating one's own balanced portfolio.
Well, the New Progressive Coalition has taken a bold step toward a metric based path for combining these for financially helping create a progressive future.
NPC's Political Mutual Funds
The New Progressive Coalition has just activated three investment funds in a progressive future:
- Invest in Victory in 2008 & Beyond
- Invest in Health Care
- Invest in Energy Independence & the Environment
The organizations that make up the Political Mutual Funds were selected from over 100 examined organizations. To become part of a fund, each organization went through a detailed process examining their goals, effectiveness, approaches, and future opportunities. In addition, NPC looked at a wide range of metrics to gain a 'business' sense of how to provide a quantitative basis for judging organizations. But these are mutual funds, which suggests that there might be individual winners and losers, but providing a greater likelihood of 'return on investing' in a progressive future.
NPC's "Political Mutual Funds" are actively managed portfolios of vetted organizations that give you a confident way to contribute money and a simple means to maximize and track your "political return" over time. … An Easy and Strategic Way to Create Political Change. … to harness collective power and make a strategic impact without having to navigate the complex political landscape.
And, well, the NPC will actively manage the Funds.
NPC researches, evaluates and hand picks organizations for each of its funds so that its customers don't have to. … organizations are selected based on their overall effectiveness, relative performance against peers, and impact. NPC's "Political Mutual Funds" are actively managed. To take advantages of political opportunities that arise, organizations may be added or removed to improve the political return of the fund.
But, let us return to the three funds.
Invest in Victory in 2008 & Beyond
This fund invests in organizations supporting progressive policies, infrastructure, and candidates. There is a critical need to build a pipeline of leaders, and the potential to make a big impact by supporting political entrepreneurs. The fund's strategy emphasizes the electoral, leadership and infrastructure sectors and is diversified across organizations with innovative and proven models.
This diverse portfolio trains candidates at all levels, registers and mobilizes voters, advances progressive agendas, creates solutions for election-challenges, and advocates for transparency and accountability. Some of these groups also work to elect progressive candidates.
This fund has 18 organizations, including Netroots Nation, Act Blue, and Wellstone Action.
NPC's Health Care Fund invests in organizations working towards an accessible, affordable health care system. Experts agree that reform must happen first at the state-level, and will require the support of the medical community and small businesses, the latter of which provides 65% of all coverage. This "plan agnostic" investment strategy emphasizes the advocacy and idea generation sectors and focuses on bolstering state-based reform, building coalitions among key stakeholders, and developing political will.
This pragmatic portfolio advocates for more accessible and affordable health care policies, promotes improvements of current health care systems like Medicare and S-Chip, and fosters political will among business, labor, and the public.
The eight organizations include the Herndon Alliance, Small Business Majority, and the Universal Health Care Action Network.
Invest in Energy Independence & the Environment
NPC's Energy Independence & Environment Fund invests in organizations working towards a green planet and an energy independent country. Our strategy emphasizes the advocacy and idea generation sectors and prioritizes three objectives: electing environmentally-friendly candidates, developing innovative green policies, and engaging the corporate community in climate change solutions.
This dynamic portfolio reduces carbon footprints, advocates for sustainable energy independence and climate change policies, builds political will in critical communities to pass environmental legislation, and raises awareness about how individuals can help America become green and energy independent.
Well, some might suspect that this fund is close to my heart.
And, it is.
For more than one reason.
Energize America is one of 11 organizations in the Energy Independence and Environment Fund. The eleven organizations:
- Arizona League of Conservation Voters
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Energize America
- Energy Action Coalition
- Green Corps
- League of Conservation Voters
- Institute for America's Future
- Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
- Science & Environmental Health Network
- Vote Solar Initiative
- Western Organization of Resource Councils
These are an amazing set of organizations.
I, others in the Energize America team, and all who have participated in EA2020 discussions over the past two years, should be honored to be on the leading edge of an organization that is grouped with these other outstanding organizations.
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I have since met a cat (named Pickles) who is desperately affectionate and I vastly prefer Scratches' loving indifference.
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Scratches the Cat
More diary comics, this one is about a semi feral cat that would come in the house and hang out. He liked me except for when he didn't.
Monday, September 14, 2015
This is a quick comic about my first couple days in Florida which involved:
- sweating
- roaches
- more sweating
- larger roaches
- sweat stain possibilities that were hitherto unknown to me
- humidity nausea
- and sleeping in the back of a car to avoid roaches
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This past weekend was Memorial Day weekend.
We went to my parents house Friday night
and laid out all day Saturday.
Wearing our sunnies ready to go swim!
We swam all day!
She loved laying on the float with me
Sunday we went to Tim's parents house, but we were all so
tired that we didn't even lay out!
Monday we spent the day just the three of us!
I love days like these.
I love my little family.
Landry's new thing is to play airplane.
We pack up all our things and go sit on her bed and fly on the airplane.
She loves it.
She even knows we have to take our shoes off
to go through the TSA!
I love my little girl


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William Burroughs
Despite Burroughs' impressive recommendation Sinclair Beiles often fell asleep during his own poetry readings thanks to a hefty diet of prescription drugs which Sinclair would carry around in a large plastic bag and which were always placed beside him on-stage so as to be within easy reach. This was a pity since Sinclair's poems, as Burroughs had attested, were worth listening to, once he could be aroused...Full text available as a PDF here
(This piece was first published in The Raconteur. Copyright: Heathcote Williams)


text: You all really need to go over to www.15minutesplay.com and see the fun website that Victoria has created. I just love the random way you can use up your scraps and have a very crazy fun quilt when you are done. Sometimes it just feels good to let your hair down and be a maverik. I stole a few minutes this past weekend and put these blocks together from little snippets here and there. I've got some setting and different placements for these and the many, many blocks to follow. When you go to the 15 minutes play blog, check out Victoria's kitchen sink quilt. It is a stunner made up of fun blocks.


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Lost in Austen 5*
Sands of Time, Clash of the Titans) who has not returned from "the city" after switching places. But she must, to marry wealthy new neighbor, overly full of pride and prejudice, Fitzwilliam Darcy (Elliot Cown). We know (Amanda reminds Austen neophytes like myself) how the plot should go, but the real people are not adhering to their written roles. Everything goes very wrong. Dresses are soft and long, colors pale and dreamy. Hair is wavy on men, curly on women, straight on Amanda. Mr Bingley (Tom Mison) is weak-willed, his sister Caroline (Christina Cole) sharp and cutting, his best mate wealthy aristocrat Darcy hard and cynical. Father (Hugh Bonneville) is poor but loving, to have his daughters marry for money makes him feel like a "whore-monger", regrets his own marriage to once "very beautiful" Mother (Alex Kingston - the best actor is memorable and unrecognizable - River Song, Dr Who 2011-now Hello Sweety, ). The twittery nagging match-maker throws all at the heir to their property, curate Collins (uglified Guy Henry) with wealthy snob patroness Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Lindsay Duncan). He sniffs his fingers, and I did not know why. Spoilers: Collins observes his hand first "feels himself inside his pants pocket". Eldest daughter Mary accepts his proposal, looks devastated riding away from the church ceremony. Amanda knees Collins in the point of maximum pain, so I thought she was tough enough to publicly deny villain soldier Wickham's status-crushing rumor that her father is a fish-monger, until the reason came clear. She was saved from marriage herself. Darcy insults Amanda, but after he agrees to get his shirt wet in the pond, their passion turns inside out, reverses outward hate to inner love.
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Grimaldi's Pizzeria
19 Old Fulton St.
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Pizza is to New York, as fake body parts are to LA. New York just does pizza well. Some say it is the water, some people claim the cheese is the key, and still others say the cooking process makes all the difference. Whatever the reason for this, one place kept coming up when I was doing research on where to get a great pizza in the city, Grimaldi's.
Grimaldi's, located right under the Brooklyn Bridge, has become the favorite pizza of countless celebrities, politicians and foodies from around the world. The line at Grimaldi's is legendary. People have waited hours to get a seat inside the bustling restaurant. Once inside you are squeezed into your table, almost elbow to elbow with your neighbor. The menu here is not too complex. They have one appetizer, (antipasto), calzones, and of course the reason we are here, pizza.
The pizza here is cooked in coal ovens. Coal is said to make the pizza's come out with a smoky flavor and a crispness that is not possible when cooking with gas or wood ovens. Coal ovens have been banned from newer restaurants, so there are only a handful of restaurants that still have them. Let's see if coal makes a big difference.
We opted to get the large pizza with pepperoni and sausage. After the first bite I noticed the difference right away, the cheese was fresh mozzarella. Not the rubbery stuff that you get at Pizza Hut, but the real thing. Very milky, and it seemed to enhance the slice instead of over-powering my taste buds. The pepperoni was much better here as well. Peppered better than any pepperoni I have ever had. The sauce on this pizza was not over done either. Sparsely splashed over the pizza to compliment the basil leaves. The crust was good as well. Nice crispness to it, but soft on the inside. Between the four of us, there were no pieces of crust left on any of our plates. Not sure that I have ever seen that happen before with four people.
One last picture to show you the lack of grease left on the pan. The result of this was a light tasting pizza that was full of flavor. The large was eight slices, and I could have probably eaten one whole large pizza by myself. I really savored my two slices, and was a little sad when they were gone.
Grimaldi's was all it was cracked up to be. Some may scoff at the lack of variety on the menu, but it is better to do one thing exceptionally well, than doing a lot of thing marginally well. The service here was fair, for how busy they were, but they have to be used to the crowds by now. Another criticism I have heard about this place was the price of the pizza. The large pizza has a base price of $14, and an additional price of $2 for each topping that you choose. I did not find this to be outrageous, but it could add up quick if you wanted a pizza with everything. Luckily, I like my pizzas more on the simpler side. In my opinion Grimaldi's deserves all the press and praise it receives.
Out of five Christmas stockings, (because Grimaldi's could use all the coal that has been found in my stocking to make pizzas for a year!), five being best to zero being best, Grimaldi's gets 4 solid Christmas stockings.
For more information on Grimaldi's, click here: http://www.grimaldis.com/index.html


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If you've been on Pinterest at all in the Stampin' Up! world over the last month, you've seen the Lotus Blossom EVERYWHERE! Talk about a popular stamp set. It's beautiful. There are so many great ways to combine color and texture. I've seen really beautiful cards made from this set.
I wanted to get my inspiration for this card somewhere other than good ol Pinterest. Sometimes I feel like there isn't an original idea in my own head when I spend hour after hour cruising that beautiful idea site. Instead, I turned to Google. I googled "lotus blossom" and clicked on Images. I think the best Inspiration truly does come from nature. First thing I noticed, lotus blossoms float. I need water. Second thing I noticed, lots of pinks and purple. Bring on Wisteria Wonder! Since I've got a Brayer Basics class on the horizon I might have found just the right bit of inspiration for this project.
I will be using this card as one of my class projects. It is a fun way to show how to blend similar colors to create a lovely graded background and highlights. It also incorporates a couple fun techniques that I think make this card stand out. Learning how to use your brayer makes this a relatively quick card for as detailed as it looks, too. I made a dozen of these as a swap with my stamp club in under 3 hours. What is that, 15 minutes a card? Not bad :-)
Visit my Meetup group at www.meetup.com/kellistamps4u and register for Brayer Basics. You will learn how to make this card and others using that magic rubber roller that takes your card making to a whole new level. Want your own Lotus Blossom stamp set? Make a $50 purchase during Sale-A-Bration and choose it as your free stamp set. That's the only way to get it. When SAB is over, it's got forever!


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Sixteen Candles Turns 30! So Here Are 16 Reasons It's the Perfect Teen Movie
Sixteen Candles, the teen classic directed by John Hughes, premiered 30 years ago on Sunday! Two things: 1) I officially feel old now, and 2) Thinking about this movie reminds me of when I hit 16. I was dateless, continued my Friday-night tradition of watching Walker Texas Ranger and Nash Bridges with my parents, and my boobs were the size of a couple of Raisinets you'd find under a movie theater seat. Hands down, I beat Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) in the lame 16th-birthday department. However, this movie has me beat is in the "film that basically created the teen movie genre as we know it today, perfectly captured what it's like to be 16, and made the incomparable Ringwald a superstar" department. Pretty impressive, eh?
So in honor of Sixteen Candles turning the dirty 30, I'm kicking back, streaming this movie online, and sharing with you the 16 reasons it's the perfect teen movie.
1) Everyone simultaneously looks 17 and 37.
Exhibit A: Early on in the movie, Jake (below left) finds out Sam likes him, so he decides to mull things over by talking to his friend and fellow high school senior classmate. This is the friend:
No offense to the unnamed jock, but how the heck is he supposed to pass for an 18-year-old? He looks like the owner of Sal's Auto Body Repair shop in Secaucus, N.J., which reminds me, I need windshield wiper fluid. Anyway, it's not only the guys with this problem in Sixteen Candles. Some of the girls in this movie look like they've had 15 pap smears, as opposed to being age 15, like Sam's BFF Randy:
And you know what? I love how most people in Sixteen Candles don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe. Furthermore, weird little quirks like this not only help make it feel like the film was really made for teens, but it also symbolize what it's like to be a teen: imperfect.
2) The soundtrack is everything.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the keytar was invented as a form of birth control, and then one of the hot guys from Duran Duran played it unironically and I was born. So thanks to them for playing funky music that got my parents in the mood, I guess. And thanks to another 1984 miracle: the Sixteen Candles soundtrack. There were countless gems on it like "If You Were Here" by the Thompson Twins, "Young Americans" by David Bowie, and "Tenderness" by General Public, which is made up of a duo that includes a black guy named Ranking Roger whose brown-and-black-striped hairstyle was inspired by a jar of Smucker's Goober peanut butter and jelly:
8) Ted's dance of seduction is the same as the one I do to my mailman when he's delivering a care package that my parents sent me:
In short, Ted and I are soulmates.
9) Speaking of Ted, he strikes the perfect balance of being an utter dweeb and being a jerk.
Example: Ted lies to his friends about having a budding relationship with Sam, so they make a bet that he can get proof (her underwear) in a way that would make Steve Jobs proud:
10) Mr. Baker is one of the best teen-movie dads ever.
Namely because he's everything a real-life teen girl's dad isn't: able to talk about his daughter's love life like he's one of the girls. Three quarters into the movie, he successfully pries Sam about Jake, listens, and gives sound advice without being overly protective. Seriously, he was so good at this that if he pulled out a bottle of pinot, so the two of them could commiserate about how love is tricky, I wouldn't have been surprised. In fact, I would've grabbed my Olivia Pope-size wineglass and joined them.
Bonus: When he sees Sam and Jake about to drive off at the end of the movie, he gives Sam the cutest thumbs-up! He never even met Jake but is 1,000 percent on board with his daughter's happiness. Love it.
11) The coolest guy in school and the nerd...get along?
Here's how it usually goes in movies: Cool guy gives nerd an atomic wedge, nerd races to Walgreens to buy some Icy Hot to help heal the wound. It's a tale as old as time or something. But Sixteen Candles presents a different take on this relationship. Jake and Ted become friends. Not because Jake is only setting Ted up to humiliate him later. Not because Ted is thirsty to ditch his geeky friends and hang with the seniors. Not because Jake is going to give Ted a makeover, so he will fit in more in school. They become friends because they enjoy each other's company. Not to get all sappy about it, but from the moment the two meet, they all but say this to each other:
12) The Classroom Scene. Ahh!
I never thought I'd type this, but I do feel kind of sorry for kids growing up today. When I was in school, passing notes was an everyday occurrence that went down with the intensity and stealth of an episode of 24:
15) Thanks to this film, Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall dated IRL!
Granted, the relationship was short-lived—they had broken up by the time they started shooting The Breakfast Club—but any movie that can bring together two teen icons is a special one indeed.
16) Best ending ever!
__What were some of your favorite moments from Sixteen Candles?


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A short vacation from the internet but not from card making!It is time to start our Christmas Cards! A group of us will gather at the end of August and September to share card making ideas and techniques. Here are a few designs.
I did use clear and white embossing powder.
Don't forget the inside of the card, the next most important part...
This next card is from the same template but using Brushed Gold cardstock #102935 and Island Indigo #122923. The Stamp set is Festive Flurry #131781 and the wonderful new dies to cut them out#132193 (I love dies...). I also used white embossing powder and my trusty Versa Mark pen to make the lines that I embossed.
And before I forget... the new candy dots from stampinup! in all the ink colors, yeah! #130931,130934,130933,130932. I used the scallop oval punch #119856 and the modern label punch #119849
The final sample for today is another snowflake from the Festive Flurry which is probably my favorite for the moment :)
The cardstock is Shimmery White #101910 and Whisper White #100730. The ink is Pink Pirouette #126956 and Blushing Bride #131172. I used the heat and stick powder #100625 and stampin glitter #102023 to give the snowflake a glittery affect. Topped it with a pearl and those handy candy dots. Turned out beautiful.
Enjoy and I will be back again with more samples for your class in August and September.
Happy Crafting! Leslie


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1. Please check the latest comment for the latest bid before putting in yours.
2. All bids are placed as comments on this blogpost. All comments will be published instantly in chronological order.
3. The auction ends at 5.00pm, on Thursday, 29th January 2015.
4. The winner is to bank in payment no later than 72 hours after the closing time failing which we reserve the right to offer it to the next highest bidder or to reauction. Winners who fail to bank in payment will be barred from participating in future auctions.
5. You may use a pseudonym when placing your bid, if you wish, but please use a genuine email address as we need to contact you if you win. Your email address will not be displayed.
6. Please participate responsibly in the spirit of goodwill, honesty and fun!
100% of the winning bid will be channeled to our Fund for the animals.
Do we hear RM150?
29th Jan:
At 5pm: For once, there are no bidders. I suppose there is a time and place for everything! If anyone still wants this blanket, please write to me with your offer. Thank you!
At 6.51pm: We thank Koo for his retrospective offer of RM333 for this blanket. SOLD! Thank you very much, Koo!
All the pieces of cloth are from our own stash.
I sewed these pinwheel pieces and let Ginger decide on the arrangement.
Ginger says he likes it this way.
Nice, nice! Now, I'll sew in more borders.
There you go! The backing was sewn by my mum.
This blanket measures 60.5 inches by 74 inches.
The beige backing cloth is contributed by Agnes Cheong.
Happy bidding and thank you very much for your support!
We have now cut down on merchandise (doctor's orders so that I don't do too much and suffer a relapse!) and are depending on our reserves, cash donations and auctions. If you'd like to help us sustain our Fund for the animals, please do send this link to your friends and family. Thank you!


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Mother's Day was mellow. The boys and I hung clothes out to dry. I painted my kitchen Saturday, the paint was lighter than I expected. I will probably repaint it in a couple weeks.
The boys are counting down the weeks until school is out. They had no school Monday, and Memorial weekend they have no school Monday through Wednesday. They were good sports and did quite a few chores Monday. I'll have to create a list for them when they have all those days off.
Things are busy, but uneventful. One of my foster kids started counseling. His counselor is very sweet and patient. The FK's mom is now in treatment. Only time will tell if it's successful.
I have been working in my garden. I planted more lettuce and beets. My peas are about 3 inches tall.
I need to wind twine up between the posts so the peas will wrap around them
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My legs are quivering already. I was sore forever last year and this was not helped by my poor choice of footwear. That said, I fondly remember the experience and encourage others to come.
(OCA) - The community of Saint Tikhon's Monastery and Seminary extends a most cordial invitation to all to attend the 109th Annual Pilgrimage over Memorial Day weekend, May 24-27, 2013.
"It is always a joy to welcome hierarchs, clergy and faithful from the Orthodox Church in America, other Orthodox jurisdictions and guests from near and far," said Igumen Sergius, the Monastery's abbot.
A detailed schedule of divine services for the weekend is available here (PDF). Updates will appear as they become available on the Monastery's website.
Saint Tikhon's Monastery is the oldest Orthodox Christian monastic community in North America.
In related news, Saint Tikhon's Seminary will hold its 71st annual Commencement on Saturday, May 25. The day will open with the celebration of the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at 9:00 a.m. and continue with graduation ceremonies at the Bell Tower at 1:00 p.m.


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Landfill-Ready MLB Merch of the Week
In honor of our nation's 233rd birthday as well as America's throwaway culture, the commanders-in-chief at MLB ordered a league-wide deployment of "Star-Spangled" garb over the long holiday weekend. Besides astonishing Cubs fanatics and Dodger die-hards by outfitting their teams in red hats, the league's bold marketing approach has solidified MLB's street cred with the increasingly lucrative norteno and mara salvatrucha market segments.
Predictably, there's a merchandising tie-in, with MLB generously donating a portion of the profits to veterans. Tubesox Nation especially recommends this scarlet Giants lid. Priced at only $36.99, it's just as sure to turns heads at the corner of 2Oth and Mission as at 24 Willie Mays Plaza.
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- Mississippi burningJuly 6, 2009 at 6:06 PM
hmm, so it's dangerous to wear Red in the Mission? good to know since I'm moving closer. Is blue ok? how about green?ReplyDelete
- botchoJuly 6, 2009 at 9:29 PM
blue is bad and same with red . . depends on the corner, vato, but don't ask me about the particularsReplyDelete
a guy of your stature and pigmentation should be okey-dokey, but the "every day is St. Patrick's Day" approach never hurts
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I reach for my wallet. Hmm… can't feel it. Open my handbag, rummage around. Start to panic. It was there 15 minutes ago when I entered the supermarket. Red leather wallet. I dropped my keys on top of it. Now, in front of the cashier with $47.67 of bagged groceries in my cart, my wallet is gone. Fear. Embarrassment. Confusion. Profuse sweating. "I lost my wallet," I mumble to the cashier. I see she's embarrassed for me. We avoid each other's eyes. I pick up the bags one by one and place them back on the counter.
As confusion gives way, fear grows. I've been pickpocketed. But how? When? I didn't feel a bump or a touch. No one distracted me. My handbag never left my shoulder. Surveillance cameras show nothing conclusive. Several times, as I meander up and down the aisles, a camera's view of my bag is blocked by different shoppers. Anyone of them could have lifted my wallet. I'm on the verge of crying. The store manager tries to console me, "A good pickpocket now days even knows how to hide from the cameras. We just catch the amateurs." I guess if a good pickpocket can out wit surveilance cameras, I shouldn't feel bad, just unlucky. I was hit by a smooth operator.


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I was going to post about our weekend, but Jen went ahead and wrote the post that I was going to write. (There are two Jens in this story. The Jen I am married to is Jen Classic and the one who came to visit us is Kenobi Jen.)
The weekend started on a bleak note. The services for Nick, my friend and old boss, were on Friday night, and I headed over to the funeral home right after work. It was tougher than I had been expecting. Funerals are never easy, but the thing that really chokes me up is when the departed is surrounded by the things they loved in life. For Lily's grandfather, it was a picture of her. For Nick, it was Halloween napkins and comic book stuff. I don't know why that saddens me like it does. Maybe it's the juxtaposition, or the knowledge that they will never be around to enjoy the things they loved. I don't know.
I always think of a line from Slaughterhouse-Five that reminds me that we'll always have the memories of the people who are gone.
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
So I said my goodbyes to Nick.
After that, the happy part of our weekend began. As the title suggests, it included Wiener dog racing, Cemetery walking, Cthulhu Worshiping, Animal Blessing, Oktoberfest, Temper Tantrums, Gravity Falls, Freaks & Geeks and protecting the world from the six-fingered hand of alien domination.
Our original plan was to head to the PA Ren Faire, but it turned out to be a bit further away than we had thought, and it was pricey to boot. So we settled on something almost as fun, but much less expensive.
Jen Classic, Kenobi Jen and I all went out for Indian at the place that had catered Lily's culture night. They were pretty decent. To hear Kenobi Jen tell it, she lives in some kind of post apocalyptic wasteland and subsists on gruel and and whatever roots she can forage. We all enjoyed the meal. Oma came to drop off Lily halfway through and we had an impromptu round of My Little Pony trivia. Kenobi Jen claims, over at her blog, that Lily won the contest, but that's just bullshit. Only Bill Clinton and Batman know more about My Little Pony than I do. I happen to know that she was hopped up on goofballs when she wrote that post anyway.
We returned home and watched some Gravity Falls. I stayed up a little later to play some of the new XCOM game. I loved the old one and while the new one didn't retain everything I loved about the old one, I don't think it has a single element that I don't enjoy tremendously.
Then we woke up in time to go the local Farmer's Market. Lily was moaning about going, but I don't know why. There are always a million dogs there and she gets to pet every single one.
After that, we headed to SteelStacks for their Oktoberfest and Wiener Dog Races. Jen Classic noticed that there were some people watching the races from a sparsely populated gallery, so we made our way up there.
Here's a picture if you think this was some elaborate troll about wiener dog races.
|Apparently, too, wiener dogs are known by some other name sometimes, but I'm not one of your highfalutin' professors of dog-ology, so I couldn't tell you.
Then we went home and had some falafel and couscous and watched a little Avatar. Lily had a bit of tantrum, and while that's always embarassing, I'm sometimes kind of of grateful for it too, so my friends don't think we have this perfect little child.
Kenobi Jen was supposed to show me a good Matt Smith episode, but she was unable to find one, so we skipped it for now. Lily went to bed and got a bedtime story from all three grownups. Jen and Jen and I played a little Taboo, which was fun, (We didn't have the buzzer, so we just took turns reading off the cards) and we watched some Freaks and Geeks and I remembered why I fell in love with the show.
On Sunday, we went to Jen's church. She had a meeting before the service started, so Kenobi Jen and Lily and I walked around a local cemetery. Lily read three paragraphs of rules off the sign before losing interest, which is about two paragraphs more than most people.
We were at this particular service because it was their annual blessing of the animals. Because this was a Unitarian Church, in addition to the usual cats and dogs and birds, parishioners brought shoggoths and byakhee and mi-go. Somebody even brought Ghroth, but he had to stay out in the foyer.
It was a pretty fun visit. I'm glad that Jen was able to make it to see us.


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UNBREAKABLE BONDS (An Angela Panther Novel)
by Carolyn Aspenson
A Mother's Work is Never Done…
Carolyn Aspenson's (Unfinished Business) latest picks up the story of Angela Panther's dealings with her dead mom, Fran and the duo's dynamic is as delightful as ever!
Angela had her psychic gift under control until a traumatic loss shut it down. And now that Angela's daughter is in too deep with a boy and her best friend Mel's husband is cheating, she needs her mom more than ever.
Fran knows that when you're a mom, there's no such thing as till death do us part and she won't rest in peace while there's strife in her daughter's life. Using her nifty celestial superpowers, she's soon back in the game and helping out, regardless of her daughter's defunct gift.
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS (An Angela Panther Novel)
Stay at home mom Angela Panther is living the good life. Happily married with two kids, a house in the suburbs and, a fantabulous best friend, she's got it all. But hours after Angela's mother dies, her ghost pops in for a visit, leaving the door to the other side wide open. Suddenly Angela's life is jam-packed with ghosts - ghosts that need her help. Now Angela must find a way to balance the needs of the living along with the unfinished business of the dead, all while keeping her mother's ghost in line. Hilarious and bittersweet, Unfinished Business tackles the emotional ups and downs of the relationships between mothers and daughters and the desperate desire for that one last chance to tell someone we've lost how we feel.
Chapter One
The air in the room felt frigid and sent an icy chill deep into my bones. Searching for comfort, I lay on the rented hospice bed, closed my eyes, and snuggled under Ma's floral print quilt. I breathed in her scent, a mixture of Dove soap, Calvin Klein Eternity perfume and stale cigarettes. The stench of death lingered in the air, trying hard to take over my senses, but I refused to let it in. Death may have taken my mother, but not her smell. Not yet.
"You little thief, I know what you did now."
I opened my eyes and searched the room, but other than my Pit Bull, Greyhound mix Gracie, and me, it was empty. Gracie sensed my ever so slight movement, and laid her head back down. I saw my breath, which wouldn't have been a big deal except it was May, in Georgia. I closed my eyes again.
"I know you can hear me, Angela. Don't you ignore me."
I opened my eyes again. "Ma?" Floating next to the bed, in the same blue nightgown she had on when she died, was my mother, or more likely, some grief induced image of her.
"Ma?" I laughed out loud. "What am I saying? It's not you. You're dead.'
The grief induced image spoke. "Of course I'm dead, Angela, but I told you if I could, I'd come back. And I can so, tada, here I am."
The image floated up in the air, twirled around in a few circles and floated back down.
I closed my eyes and shook my head, trying to right my brain or maybe shake loose the crazy, but it was pointless because when I opened my eyes again, the talking image of my mother was still there.
"Oh good grief, stop it. It's not your head messing with you, Angela. It's me, your Ma. Now sit up and listen to me. This is important." As children we're conditioned to respond to our parents when they speak to us. We forget it as teenagers, but somewhere between twenty and the birth of our first child, we start acknowledging them again, maybe even believing some of what they tell us. Apparently it was no different when you imagined their ghost speaking to you, too. Crazy maybe, but no different.
I rubbed my eyes. "This is a dream, so I might as well go with it."
I sat up, straightened my back, plastered a big ol' smile on my face, because it was a dream and I could be happy the day my mom died, in a dream and said, "Hi Ma, how are you?"
"You ate my damn Hershey bars."
"Hershey bars? I dream about my dead mother and she talks about Hershey bars. What is that?"
"Don't you act like you don't know what I'm talking about, Angela."
"But I don't know what you're talking about, Ma." I shook my head again and thought for sure I was bonkers, talking to an imaginary Ma.
"Oh for the love of God, Angela, my Hershey bars. The ones I hid in the back of my closet."
Oh. Those Hershey bars, from like, twenty years ago, at least. The ones I did eat.
"How do you know it was me that ate your Hershey bars? That was over twenty years ago."
The apparition smirked. "I don't know how I know, actually. I just do. I know about all of the stuff you did, and your brothers too. It's all in here now." She pointed to her, slightly transparent head and smirked.
She floated up to the ceiling, spun in a circle, and slowly floated back down. "And look, I'm floating. Bet you wish you could do that, don't you, Angela? You know, I'd sit but I tried that before and fell right through to the damn basement. And let me tell you, that was not fun. It was creepy, and it scared the crap outta me. And oh, Madone, the dust between your two floors! Good Lord, it was nasty. You need to clean that. No wonder Emily's always got a snotty nose. She's allergic."
"Emily does not always have a snotty nose." She actually did but I wasn't going to let Ma have that one.
The apparition started to say something, then scrutinized at the bed. "Ah, Madone, that mattress. That was the most uncomfortable thing I ever slept on, but don't get me started on that. That's a conversation for another time." Another time?
"And I hated that chair." She pointed to the one next to the bed. "You should have brought my chair up here instead. I was dying and you wanted me to sit in that chair? What with that uncomfortable bed and ugly chair, my back was killing me." She smiled at her own joke, but I sat there stunned, and watched the apparition's lips move, my own mouth gaping, as I tried to get my mind and my eyes to agree on what floated in front of me.
"Ah, Madone. Stop looking at me like that, Angela Frances Palanca. You act like you've never seen a ghost."
"Ma, I haven't ever seen a ghost, and my name is Angela Panther, not Palanca. You know that." My mother always called me Angela Palanca, and it drove both my father and me batty. She said I was the closest thing to a true Italian she could create, and felt I deserved the honor of an Italian last name. She never liked Richter, my maiden name, because she said it was too damned German.
"And that recliner of yours was falling apart. I was afraid you'd hurt yourself in it. Besides, it was ugly, and I was sort of embarrassed to put it in the dining room." I shook my head again. "And you're not real, you're in my head. I watched them take your body away, and I know for a fact you weren't breathing, because I checked."
Realizing that I was actually having a discussion with someone who could not possibly be real, I pinched myself to wake up from what was clearly some kind of whacked-out dream.
"Stop that, you know you bruise easily. You don't want to look like a battered wife at my funeral, do you?" Funeral? I had no intention of talking about my mother's funeral with a figment of my imagination. I sat for a minute, speechless, which for me was a huge challenge.
"They almost dropped you on the driveway, you know." I giggled, and then realized what I was doing, and immediately felt guilty, for a second.
Ma scrunched her eyebrows and frowned. "I know. I saw that. You'd think they'd be more careful with my body, what with you standing there and all. There you were, my daughter, watching them take away my lifeless, battered body, and I almost went flying off that cart. I wanted to give them a what for, and believe me, I tried, but I felt strange, all dizzy and lightheaded. Sort of like that time I had those lemon drop drinks at your brother's wedding. You know, the ones in those little glasses? Ah, that was a fun night. I haven't danced like that in years. I could have done without the throwing up the next day, though, that's for sure."
Lifeless, battered body? What a dramatic apparition I'd imagined.
I sat up and rubbed my eyes and considered pinching myself again, but decided the figment was right, I didn't want to be all bruised for the funeral.
There I sat, in the middle of the night, feeling wide awake, but clearly dreaming. I considered telling her to stay on topic, seeing as dreams didn't last very long, and maybe my subconscious needed my dream to process her death but I didn't. "This is just a dream." I tried to convince myself the apparition wasn't real.
She threw her hands up in the air. "Again with the dreaming. It's not a dream, Angela. You're awake, and I'm here, in the flesh." She held her transparent hand up and examined it. "Okay, so not exactly in the flesh, but you know what I mean."
This wasn't my mother, I knew this, because my mother died today, in my house, in this bed, in a dining room turned bedroom. I was there. I watched it happen. She had lung cancer, or, as she liked to call it, the big C. And today, as her body slowly shut down, and her mind floated in and out of consciousness, I talked to her. I told her everything I lacked the courage to say before, when she could talk back and acknowledge my fear of losing her. And I kept talking as I watched her chest rise and fall, slower and slower, until it finally stilled. I talked to her as she died, and because I still had so much more to say, I kept talking for hours after her body shut down. I told her how much I loved her, how much she impacted my life. I told her how much she drove me absolutely crazy, and yet I couldn't imagine my life without her.
So this wasn't Ma, couldn't possibly be. "You're dead."
The figment of my imagination shook her head and frowned, then moved closer, and looked me straight in the eye. I could see through her to the candelabra on the wall. Wow, it was dusty. When was it last dusted?
"Of course I'm dead, Angela. I'm a ghost."
I shook my head, trying hard not to believe her, but I just didn't feel like I was sleeping, so God help me, I did.
My name is Angela Panther and I see dead people. Well, one dead person, that is, and frankly, one was enough.
"Honey, it's time to wake up." My husband, Jake, shook me softly. "We have to go to the funeral home. Come on, your brothers will be there soon. Wake up." He shook me a little harder.
I sat up. "Where's Ma?"
He studied me, his expression a mix of sadness and compassion. "I know this is hard but it's going to be okay." He hugged me and it felt good, comforting. I let him hold me a little longer, and then I remembered the night before.
"No," I told him, pulled away, and rubbed the sleep fog from my eyes. "Ma. She was here. Last night. I know she's dead, but she was here. I saw her." I grabbed his shoulders, trying to show him how serious I was and whispered, "She told me she's a ghost."
His eyes widened and all of the sadness and compassion flew right out the dining room window. Jake was a fantabulous husband, and supported me in ways that often tried his patience, but to see the gray area of what he considered to be only black and white was asking too much. Fantabulous and all, he had his limits.
"Ang, it wasn't Fran. It was a dream. I've read that kind of stuff happens. People dream about the person who died and think it's real." He made a small attempt at comforting coos, but they just sounded like our cat before she died.
I pushed away from him and got up. "Stop it. You sound like a sick cat, and I need coffee." My mind barely worked without a good night's sleep, but without coffee, even the simplest conversations were practically impossible. Besides, it wasn't the time to get into a debate about the hereafter. I walked to the kitchen to pour myself a cup of coffee and said a silent thank you to Jake for making a pot. I would have said it out loud but I was a little miffed at him for discounting my ghostly experience.
Jake was kind enough to get our two kids, Emily and Josh, off to school while I slept. I felt a sense of relief for not having to deal with them and then felt a little guilty for that. They left me a handmade card near the coffeepot knowing I'd be sure to see it there. It had red hearts and sad faces drawn all over the front, most likely by Josh, because he drew eyes with eyelashes. The inside of it read, "We're sorry for your loss. We loved Grandma and miss her." They weren't here last night. I knew it was Ma's last day, and Jake and I didn't want them to see her die, so we made arrangements for them to spend the evening with friends. Jake picked them up after the funeral home took Ma. I lacked the energy and courage to talk to them, so Jake asked them to give me some alone time.
The card was sweet, and I got a lump in my throat just reading it even though I was sure they'd never work for Hallmark.
"What time is it?" I asked, and then checked the clock. "It's ten a.m. What the – we have to be at the funeral home at eleven fifteen." I finished pouring my coffee, took a huge gulp, and cursed myself as it burned my throat, then rushed upstairs to get ready.
We arrived at the funeral home just before eleven fifteen. My long, blond hair was pulled into a ponytail since I didn't have time to style it. I didn't have on an ounce of makeup and was dressed like a typical soccer mom heading to a yoga class. Normally I wouldn't go to an appointment like that but considering the fact that my mother just died, I didn't really give a crap.
We walked in through the front doors into a sitting area I'm sure was meant to seem comforting and inviting but instead felt like a grandparents' family room, old fashioned and overstuffed. The couch was a ridiculously huge, twenty years outdated, 1980s floral print of mauve and gray, flanked with humongous pillows in matching solid colors. There were two matching and equally uncomfortable looking chairs and ugly, ornate tables that didn't match, intermixed with the seating. A few magazines and tissue boxes sat on the tables. I grabbed a couple tissues just in case I needed them later. Overhead, soft music played, and I was sure they thought it made someone in my position feel better, but mostly it was just annoying.
Carnations in various colors sat in vases on stands around the lobby, attacking my nasal passages like an old woman drenched in White Diamonds perfume. Almost instantly I had a sensory overload headache. The entire room smacked of old people, but I guess it should since it was really mostly old people who died. Jake crinkled his nose at the smells, too. We both moved quickly as we followed the signs to the assistant funeral director's office, almost like we were running from a skunk. I silenced my cell phone, knowing my best friend, Mel, would probably text. I'd talked to her just after Ma passed but not since. I was sure she'd check on me sooner rather than later.
Before Ma died, we talked about what she wanted, and I promised her I'd honor her requests. They were simple. She wanted to be cremated and buried with my grandparents in Chicago. Since we lived in the suburbs of Atlanta, we'd have her body cremated here but her memorial and burial would be handled separately.
My brothers, John and Paul, were already in the assistant director's office. There was a spread of coffee and its fixings set out on the conference table, and I made a beeline for it. I'd have an IV of caffeine inserted into my wrist if it were socially acceptable. Actually, forget socially acceptable. I'd do it even if it weren't. Coffee for me was like sex to a twenty-year-old man – never too much and never too often.
My oldest brother John lived nearby, and was with Ma and me when she passed. Paul lived in Indiana and didn't make it here in time to say goodbye. I could see the angst and regret on his face. I said hi, hugged both of them, and turned toward my chair so I wouldn't cry. Crying in front of my brothers made me appear weak and I refused to let that happen.
"Ma wanted to be cremated and buried with her parents," I told the assistant funeral director, a short, squat man, with a bad comb-over and a blue paisley tie that didn't quite fit over a mid-section that rivaled Santa's.
"Yes, your brothers told me," said Comb-over. "It is our policy to return the remains to the loved ones for proper burial if our services are not being used."
We all nodded in agreement, and then Paul asked Comb-over if he could see our mother.
Comb-over gave us what must have been his really sympathetic face. "Oh, no. No. I'm sorry. It is against our policy to allow family back into the crematorium. You understand."
Paul nodded his understanding. Seriously?
"Excuse me. My brother wasn't able to see our mom before she died. He lives out of state and couldn't get here, so I'm sure you can make an exception. I mean, it is our mother and we are paying you after all."
Jake smirked in my direction, liking my passive aggressive technique, and I gave him a quick smile.
"Well." Comb-over back-pedaled. "I'll see what I can do." He then gave us what was obviously his, I am not making enough money for this job face, excused himself and closed the door behind him. A chill filled the air, and I hugged my arms to my chest for warmth.
My brother's mouths gaped. "Well, it's a stupid rule and someone had to call him on it."
Paul nodded. "Thanks."
I nodded and then saw my mother floating behind him, smiling, too. I shook my head to clear the image but it didn't work. She was still there.
"You're such a good girl. I knew you loved your brother."
"Uh, I guess I do."
Paul tilted his head. "You guess you do what?"
Well, crap. For a brief second I considered saying, sorry I was talking to the ghost of our mother, who, by the way, is floating behind you, but instead went with, "Look behind you," as I pointed behind them.
They did. "What?" Paul asked.
Ma winked at me and laughed. They couldn't see her.
"Oh, nothing. I thought there was a spider or something on the wall, sorry." Probably it wasn't a good time to tell my brothers I could see our dead mother and I wasn't sure there would ever be a good time for something of that nature.
Paul started to say something again, but Comb-over walked back in. The man may have been a fashion nightmare, but his timing was impeccable. He coughed lightly and straightened his tie. "We don't normally allow anyone into the crematorium, but given the circumstances, we'll make an exception." We. Uh huh. We, as in the big boss, I bet. I smiled my I won smile and thanked him. Comb-over explained since our mother was being cremated, they didn't prepare her body as they would for a traditional burial. I assumed that meant she's not made up and nodded my understanding. He walked over to the closed door behind my brothers and walked right through my mother.
She shuddered. "Oh, Madone, that was creepy."
I concentrated on the wall and searched for the imaginary spider and tried to ignore her.
Through the doorway I saw my mother lying on a gurney, the mother that wasn't floating in the room with me, that is. My eyes shot back and forth between the horizontal Ma and the floating Ma. This was all a little confusing. First I had one Ma, and then she died. Now I had a dead Ma and a ghost Ma. If they both started talking to me, I'd get right up and drive myself straight to the loony bin. I stood up and shook off the crazy. "Ah, Paul, you can go first." He did.
The fact that I took control of the meeting was not lost on me. As the youngest of the siblings, my brothers always considered me the baby, never quite aging me past a toddler in their mind so for them to acquiesce authority in this situation was surprising. I wrote it off to their shock and grief at losing Ma and expected the newfound respect to burn out quicker than a birthday candle. But I would be lying if I didn't admit to enjoying it just a little.
We all said our goodbyes to my mother. I couldn't hear their private whispered words, but I could hear Ma responding. Not the Ma lying on the gurney, the ghost one. As I said, it was confusing. Like the loud Italian woman she was in life, her raspy, I've had one thousand too many cigarettes, voice enveloped the room, for me at least, since apparently I was the only one who could hear her. "Oh Pauly, it's okay. I'm not mad that you weren't here. Don't be upset. It's okay." I always knew he was her favorite.
Paul and I haven't always had the smoothest of relationships. In fact, as a child he wanted me dead. No, really. He tried so hard to make it happen he actually pushed me in front of slow moving cars three times. I was lucky to suffer only emotional, not physical, damage. Attempted murders aside, my heart ached for him now. The guilt of not being there when Ma passed would haunt him forever, though I couldn't help but wonder if that was easier than being haunted by her ghost.
An hour later, the four of us sat with coffee in hand, at Starbucks. Coffee made everything seem better, if only a little. Before we left the funeral home, Paul asked Comb-over to let us know when Ma's body was cremated. I preferred not to know, but everyone handles death differently and Paul needed what he needed so I didn't argue. Admittedly, backing away from an argument with Paul was a new thing for me. Ma's death had really messed with my brain.
We were discussing the arrangements of her burial when I got the call. Comb-over told me they'd started, and as I nodded to Jake and my brothers, a heavy sadness filled the air.
I disconnected from the call and stayed on task. "Okay. When should we go to Chicago?"
"That's a good question," John, the over thinker of us siblings, said. "I'll call the cemetery later today and find out if we can bury Mom with Grandma and Grandpa. If they won't let us, we'll have to figure out what else to do. I was thinking maybe we could each take a portion of her remains and do something with our kids to honor her."
Oh, no. No, no, no. That was not going to happen. I promised Ma I'd do this for her and I'll be damned if I didn't do it right. Especially since she was haunting me. There was no way I would to spend the rest of my waking days with the ghost of my mother pissed off because we didn't honor her final wish. No way.
"It's okay," I blurted out before Paul agreed with John. "Ma was worried about the same thing, so we called the cemetery a few weeks ago and found out that it's fine." I took a quick breath and hoped God wouldn't strike me dead for lying.
"They told me that as long as we're not getting a stone, the plots are ours to do with as we please. Except for digging up our grandparents, that is." I checked the sky, but still no lightning. Phew.
My brothers nodded. "Okay." Dodged that bullet. What's wrong with a few little lies? This was what Ma wanted and eventually I'd tell them the truth, once she was buried and we were on our way home. Or maybe next year. What's the saying? Ask for forgiveness, not permission. That's what I'd do, eventually.
I offered to make the memorial arrangements even though we all knew they'd have asked me to do it anyway.
I filled them in on my call to our cousin. "I already called Roxanne, who said she'd make the rounds of calls, and since the funeral home here said they would put the obituary in the Chicago papers, that's covered. Does the weekend after next work? That gives us all time to plan accordingly."
"I don't see a problem with that, but I'll have to check with Elizabeth and see what her schedule is," John said.
Jake nodded in agreement with his eyes still glued to the screen of his iPhone.
Paul nodded too. "Let's go through all of our pictures of Mom. I can make a video with music, and we can show it at her memorial."
We all agreed that was a great idea and made plans to confirm the date over email by tonight. My brothers left Jake and me there to share our addiction to the warm, smooth taste of coffee. We got refills before we headed home, too.
The rest of the day I was on autopilot and truth be told I couldn't remember much of it. One minute Jake and I were getting coffee and the next it was after ten p.m. I kissed Jake goodnight and went upstairs and checked on the kids, who were already blissfully sound asleep.
"It's done," I texted Mel after I settled under the covers.
"I'm sorry," she texted back. "Do you need anything?"
"No, I'm okay. Going to bed. I'm tired."
"K. I'm here if you need me. (HUGS)."
My interview today is with Carolyn Ridder Aspenson author of the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller Unfinished Business (paranormal, contemporary women's fiction, 4.6 stars, 70 reviews) and the second book in the series, Unbreakable Bonds, (paranormal, contemporary women's fiction, 4.8 stars, 13 reviews).
Before the interview, a brief description of the series: One minute Angela's a typical stay at home mom, and the next, she's a psychic psychologist to the dead.
Ghosts aren't real. At least that's what Angela Panther believed right up until the moment her late mother popped in for a chat. Her mother's reappearance, just hours after the hearse drove off with her corpse, opens the door to the other side, and suddenly Angela's life is jam-packed with dead people. Between keeping tabs on her mother's ghostly mishaps, watching out for her drama-prone teenage daughter, and helping a son who shares her psychic gift, the reluctant medium isn't sure she's capable of tackling the unfinished business of the dead. Not that they care.
Although humorous and full of sarcastic wit, this story about relationships will hit home with anyone who's lost a loved one and wished to speak with them, even if only one more time.
Carolyn Ridder Aspenson couples heart-wrenching emotions with laugh out loud humor in her bestselling Angela Panther book Unfinished Business. Compared to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, Unfinished Business and the second in the series, Unbreakable Bonds, both published through Booktrope Editions, are available in print and e-ebook through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iTunes. Enjoy listening to Unfinished Business as an audio book as well through Amazon and Audible.com.
-What inspired you to write your first book?
I decided to write Unfinished Business, An Angela Panther Novel as a way to honor my mother, who died of lung cancer in 2009. In the book, the character of Fran is very much my mom. I wanted to keep my mom close and this seemed like the perfect way.
-Do you have a specific writing style?
Yes. It's called, 'none whatsoever'. For the Angela Panther series I just sat down and started writing both the first and second books in the series. The first book has a great deal of truth to it, though not the ghost parts. The character of Fran is a ghost and her daughter sees her but unfortunately I don't see my mom. I'd love to be able to though! I'm also working on a cozy mystery series and I had to trash the first 25,000 words because I couldn't get it right and realized I need some sort of outline for it. That's been a little tough but it's going to be better in the long run. I hope!
-How did you come up with the title?
You know what? I have no clue how I came up with Unfinished Business. I think it's just a common phrase for people who believe we can communicate with the dead, and the reason a spirit might want to stick around. For the second one, I brainstormed with a friend. I wanted to keep the books names similar and keep the tone about the connection between Fran and her mother and people who have lost loved ones and their connection to them, so we finally came up with Unbreakable Bonds. I did a happy dance when we decided on it and I'm very happy with it. I'm currently struggling for the third book. Do you know how many words start with Un and B? More than I could have imagined!
-Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
Yes, a few, actually! I think the book is mostly a book of hope...hope that there is something after this life and that the people we 'lose' aren't gone forever, that we'll see them again. There is also a message about the connection between women-friends and family. The relationships we share with the women we're close to and how important they are to us. The Angela Panther series is about a woman who can speak to spirits but the underlying theme of the series is about relationships and their importance of them in our lives. I just didn't know that until AFTER I wrote the first book!
-How much of the book is realistic?
With the first book, everything that has to do with the relationship of the main character, Angela and her family, her mother, her father, husband, etc. as well as the closeness she has to her best friend and the particulars about the night her mother died, the funeral arrangements, how she was buried, and the storyline surrounding Angela's father is all very much my life and what happened in the year after my mother died. The stuff about the ghosts however, is totally made up. And is a total bummer. In Unbreakable Bonds, the basis for the story is all fiction. There isn't much truth to the story at all, actually.
-If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Definitely the latke Robert B. Parker. He wrote the Spenser series. It's a PI series and I think there are something like 40 books in it. Parker wrote crisp, with very few words per sentence and a lot of dialog. I don't know how to move a story forward with anything other than dialog and I think that's from reading his stuff. I'd love to be able to write like him and work hard to polish my skills. He was an amazing writer and when he died, I cried. It truly broke my heart.
-What book are you reading now?
Right now I'm reading two books. I'm reading a story called Don of the Dead about a woman who, wouldn't you know it. can see dead people and am reading a first draft of a book by my friend and fellow author Martha Reynolds.
-What are your current projects?
Right now I'm working on the third Angela Panther book as well as the first Kelly Monroe book in my Kelly Monroe mystery. It's called Death On A Deadline and has a great cover already designed. Just wish I could write the darn story.
-Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members.
I think an 'entity' would be a Facebook group for chick-lit authors. I learned a lot from those ladies and still learn from them every day! Also, a very good friend, who helped me name the second book, has been my main reader and really been a huge supporter. I really, really appreciate her!
-Do you see writing as a career?
Never thought I would say this, but yes. And it only took me 45 years to make the decision, too!
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My covers were designed by Tatiana Vila and I LOVE them. She's done all of my covers and will do my covers from now. I love, love, LOVE her.
-What was the hardest part of writing your book?
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Yes! Research until your eyes pop out...research marketing and writing and story ideas and then once you've got a story idea, start marketing yourself and the book. If you wait until it's published, like I did, then you're getting into the game very, very late!
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I'm way behind on my blog reading. I haven't read a single post in the Winter Blog Blast Tour (WBBT for short) yet! But, I am saving those for the weekend, when my computer and I shall be united for too long to mention. Until then, here are two short posts that caught my eye.
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Starley Murray Image and Branding Strategist Goes Into Detail on How To Write Your Backstory or Point of View for OPM Author / Book Contest
Do you want to enter the competition and don't know how to answer to contest questions? Starley goes into great detail to help you put together a winning entry.
On Purpose Magazine is known for helping authors promote themselves and since we love authors we want to do more.
In the audio above famed image and branding strategist Starley Murray discusses with JW Najarian the tips, tricks and secrets of writing your Point of View (POV) or what is also referred to as the Backstory in your efforts toward winning the OPM Author / Book Competition and using it in your marketing and promotion yourself and your books.
Starley Murray
I choose Celebrity Image Expert Starley Murray to help us build our backstory or Point of View (POV) because Starley has been on TV every single month for the past ten years with nearly 3000 appearances overall.
Specializing in brand development, media training and publicity image she has been in demand with celebrities, Fortune 500 companies, industry experts, and TV stations for the last 20 years. Starley has generated more than $1 Million in sales directly from her TV appearances and media productions.
She's called upon by stars from Inside Edition and the E! Channel and many celebrities like Brooke Burke, Tommy Lee Jones, Marie Osmond, and Eva Longoria. Starley's plugged in to internationally recognized media events like the Academy Awards and has interviewed hundreds of celebrities on the red carpet and leverages her appearances to support Cancer Survivors and Domestic Violence Prevention.
She is proud to be regularly requested for coaching behind the scenes at the American Idol try outs and all while on live television as a media correspondent for a FOX TV news show!
Writing Your Backstory or Point of View for the OPM Contest
The On Purpose Magazine (OPM) Author Book Competition is not based on your book, but rather on your story around the book. OPM wants to help authors promote their books and believe the first thing you need to have is a great package put together to help promote, market and sell you and your book.
OPM has put a contest together to find the most original, compelling and great backstory or author point of view which will be the basis of all your promotional and marketing efforts going forward.
Here are the questions you will be asked to answer for the competition and an explanation of how to answer them to help you build a winning entry.
Even if you do not enter the competition and you should… just check out the prizes; you will end up building a very strong foundation for the rest of your marketing and promotional campaigns going forward so have fun and get creative!
The following is an outline of the lesson on the audio. Use both guide you or not. There is no right way to answer these questions. I am sure many of you will answer from the heart and just blow us away and some of you will step out of the box, the box is in.
OPM Author / Book contest questions
Who Is The Author?
Give Us Your Story, Background, History or something interesting that might tie you to the book.
- Share your experiences about your back ground history (often called your back story) to give the reader a way to connect with you.
- Concentrate your story on an inspiring and/or exciting experience from your life.
- Don't discount the power of others relating to you if the experience is common and not action packed. Common threads are strong connections.
- Develop your backstory and share your emotions to connect to your reader.
- Have a short one minute back story as well as a longer version such as a five minute presentation. Likely you will get the most mileage from your short sound bites for media related experiences and the longer versions when you have the opportunity to more deeply connect with your readers/audience.
What Is This Book About?
What is the theme? Give us a short Description of the Book and the Story.
- Your theme or genre to your book is also a form of branding. You may have more than one applicable theme. If so, prioritize your themes and lead with the strongest.
- Develop your description of the book in ways to invoke the reader's senses such as sight, sound, taste or touch. In video and television interviews, strong visuals are strong forms of publicity.
- Keep your description short in length of words and impactful in meaning of your words. In the media, the less you say …the more they will listen. It's how you say it that can be most impactful.
- Be purposeful as to the order of words and sentences in your descriptions. The first impression rule still applies and you can set the tone and support the mood of the reader from beginning to end.
Why Did You Write This Book?
What compelled you to write this book? Why you and not someone else?
- Combine your unique back story with your special interests and skills when sharing the reasons why you wrote your book. Having a unique fusion of inspiration with special skills makes your brand more difficult to copy by others competing for publicity.
- Differentiate your writing styles and share why your take on your top is unique.
- Reveal something about yourself that is specific only to you as an author or person.
- Share your reasons to write this book that may be different from what inspires other authors or readers of your topic.
Why should someone read this book?
Why should someone read this book and who should read this book? Who will this book entertain, inspire, educate, and help?
- List all the reasons your book can help other people and make a difference.
- Categorize the reasons that can help readers immediately in their lives, and the ones that can help them long term as well as those reasons that just might make them smile or feel like they are a part of something special that is bigger than them as one person.
- Then pick the top three reasons from each of these three areas to support your reason why someone should read your book to answer the questions readers often ask themselves subconsciously. (What's in it for me)
- Determine who your target market is and adjust your language and pinpoint your promotional campaign to reach the groups that have the highest interest in your book.
The Contest
Over 3 Million books come out every year and only a handful of them make any money or get any recognition. In fact 50% of all new books make less than $250 on average in their first year!
This is a startling and amazingly sad fact and it is not because the books are not worthy, solid, or wonderful, but because the marketing efforts behind the books are almost non existent or worse, a lot of money is spent in the wrong direction.
I have interviewed many bestselling and not best selling authors and I always get the same feedback. Marketing and promotions is the hardest part of writing a book.
What is one of the best ways to market and promote? Simple, let people get to know you. Exposure is not enough. You need the right type of exposure. This helps you build credibility and puts you on course to build a community which is one of the best ways to create buzz and sell more books.
On Purpose Magazine Wants To Help Authors Promote Their Books
On Purpose Magazine is doing something different and very special for the new and not so new author to help them get more of the right type of exposure.
We will not be reading your book! What?? How can you have a Author / Book Competition / Contest without reading the book? Again Simple…
If you write a great book, give it a fantastic title and put a great picture on the front… guess how many people will beat a path to your door to get this book? Generally no one. First people need to know that it is available, but more importantly people need a reason to pick it up to read.
What is the best way to promote my book?
Through my many interviews and working with authors and publicists and public relations executives I have learned that what an author needs beyond a great book, is a well defined, compelling, interesting or relate-able story.
The Author needs to get exposure from many different sources.
- Radio (Internet, Satellite and Terrestrial)
- Television (Internet, Local and National)
- Newspaper
- Magazines
- Industry Publications
- Other Publications
- Associations
- Groups
- Word of Mouth
- and Many Others
But are you ready for your close up? Do you know what you are going to say or how your going to say it?
Many of the 3 million authors will never get their work exposed and many others will get some type of exposure, but waste it by not knowing what to say and how to present themselves.
What an author needs is a package that is put together and tested. Starting with a headshot, bio and compelling book description. It will also be nice to have a professional interview with a professional publication, completed and on your resume.
This is what this contest will give the author. On Purpose Magazine's contest is all about what we call the author's Point of View (POV). The POV is the author's backstory, reason for writing the book and reason why the reader absolutely needs to have this book or get it for a friend..
OPM's contest will choose a winner based on the best POV submitted. The winner will receive one of our Gold Premium Promotional Package including a full page story with a full 30 minute professional interview that will be featured in OPM and shared out to thousands and thousands of readers, industry people and is, of course, yours to distribute as you see fit all your promotional needs. There will also be other bonuses from our industry sponsors.
So by the time you are done you will have:
- A Headshot (you supply the headshot, but you have to have one for the interview and you can take it with your cell phone, but don't screw yourself. Take a decent one.)
- A Bio (You must supply this also, but if you complete the contest, believe me you will have a great one.)
- A Point of View (The basis for all your marketing, promotion, interviews and more)
- A professional interview published on a recognized web magazine.
- One great resume entry
For new authors this will be you breaking the ice and getting more and more interviews or speaking engagements. For some of you seasoned authors this will be a chance for you to get more and better exposure and to dust off your old POV and create another, or it may be your chance to get noticed in the new social media.
Give yourself a Chance to be Recognized
On Purpose Magazine is well known and respected by publicists and public relations firms that use the new media to help promote their authors.
On Purpose Magazine is becoming well known around the celebrity community as a place where the celeb can speak and promote their cause.
On Purpose Magazine gets great Google, Alexa and SEO rankings form all the major search engines so we already have the built in traffic and tools to help new and seasoned authors promote their work.
Your interview with be shown and featured alongside well known, bestselling authors, Hollywood Celebrities, Business Leaders and Teachers and more.
If you do not want to try and win a spot in the magazine there are a limited amount of spots available at a reasonable rate. OPM wants to make it affordable for authors to get themselves interviewed professionally, but since OPM does everything the old fashioned way… from scatch, OPM cannot do more than a few of these interviews. We will be offering them on a first come, first served basis.
Submit your Point of View today…. We have put together a course in how to put together a great POV which was taken from a $1500 course, but will be made available to our entrants at no charge…. This is worth the price of admission alone.
All entrants will get mentioned in the magazine with a coveted link to their book and site. This is worth the entry fee also….


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Jason Behrendorff has no plans to ditch first class cricket with his latest injury setback doing nothing to deter him from his Test ambitions.
Behrendorff will be wrapped in cotton wool until the Twenty20 Big Bash after a stress fracture-related injury left him barely able to "bend over or move at all" during a recent Sheffield Shield match.
The Canberra product has his eye on a baggy green but some Cricket Australia officials feel Behrendorff will be better off concentrating on one-day cricket rather than risking further injuries with his back.
Behrendorff made his Australian debut in a Twenty20 series in India in October but concerns for his long-term fitness have been raised, given he has waged a war with injury for three seasons.
The left-arm paceman's fracture will never fully heal, meaning he is prone to painful flare-ups associated with the scar tissue, but his eyes remain locked on the Test arena.
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Behrendorff has pencilled in Perth's clash with the Sydney Sixers at the Sydney Cricket Ground on December 23 for his return to cricket.
The BBL looms as the ideal platform for Behrendorff to relaunch his season and force his way back into Australian contention.
"The good thing about the Big Bash is I don't need to worry about workloads as such and building them up for a Shield game. It's only four overs an innings, it's not such an issue," Behrendorff said.
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"It's such a great set up at the Scorchers and we've had great success over the whole six years the competition has been around.
"It's a great team set-up to be involved in, it's lots of fun playing at 'the Furnace' [WACA] and we've always got really good fans there.
"To play in front of packed houses every week is something as a domestic cricketer you don't get very often, so it's exciting."
The Scorchers are preparing for their final season at the WACA Ground with the club set to move into Perth Stadium next season - but could play at the new venue as soon as this summer if they host a final.
Behrendorff and his Scorchers teammates were recently treated to a tour of the venue, which will be officially opened when Australia host England in a one-day international on January 28.
The Scorchers will play a "test" event against England second XI at the stadium to assess the drop-in pitch on December 13, and play an intra-club game there two days earlier.
"It's remarkable, what they've done there is fantastic and walking out in the middle of the ground and getting a feel for it... they've done a very good job," Behrendorff said.


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