Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog

Recently husband and older son were having one of their financial planning discussions. This is fairly normal.

If you’ve read “Rich dad, poor dad” — I haven’t, but I’ve heard enough about it second and third hand to know what’s in it — the idea is that there are “rich” mindsets and “poor” mindsets.

Broadly speaking it is correct. “Poor” people — who might temporarily have lots of money — have habits that involve short term gratification, avoidance of risk etc. But I’m not a 100% sure ...

*I won’t lie. I came up dry this morning, mostly because I have two novels being loud at me. But I remembered this post and decided to check how close my predictions tracked. Well… pretty well. And it explains why the left has no idea who we are and what we’re up to. That their projection of their beliefs onto us are sometimes tragic and hurt everyone is unfortunate. But they’re the ones who silenced and continue to silence all opposition. (Openly so, under the Auto-Pen administration.) Ther...

Which means someone has plans to kidnap me and go have some fun for the day. Probably a couple of museums and dinner out.

Anyway, I might finish a chapter on Orphans of the Stars (because I like sleeping at night, and the book is a tyrant) but I ain’t writing a post today.

To compensate…. Well, I wrote this song that sounds like a gurrrrl powah song, until you realize it’s called Athena’s Song. By that point, if you’ve read Darkship Thieves, you’ll be giggling like a little girl. Yes,...

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

Save that quote as we’ll return to it before this is over. For now let’s look at two other observations on hatred. In The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, Heinlein says it is easier to get people to hate than to love. Easier to get them to hate the enemy than to love their country (or their ideas, or their future. Or whatever.) As we know this is correct, because the left has run on it for centuries.

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Understand: I’m not saying that the economy is in good shape. It’s not. The amazing thing after the abuse it’s been put through in the last 20 years, but particularly the last five, it’s amazing we still have an economy. As in, at least the shell is still standing and hasn’t crashed spectacularly into the dust.

And the reason it’s still standing, I think, as far as I can tell, is that all other economies, the world over, are in worse shape. (Despite all the talk of Russia stronk and China...

By Holly the Assistant

“I want to spend the day writing, can you post something cute tomorrow?”

“Sure.”

It’s tomorrow, and I realized I don’t do cute. I do snark, puns, occasional humor, and sometimes, if I’m lucky, beauty, but cute? Cute is for fluff-brained small animals. Wait, I have some fluff-brained small animals around this place! But are they being cute?

I don’t remember the part of the Bethlehem story when Gertrude sat in the manger, do you?

The orange and white N...

You guys tend to get the impression that I’m Mary Sunshine. At least I assume so, from how hard some of you try to spook me/worry me.

The point is I worry just fine on my own, thank you so much. I’m a raging depressive, and I inherited the paranoia from Mom’s side of the family. I wake up knowing that the world is ending in mere minutes, and that everyone is going to blame me for it.

I’m not actually joking when I say I spent years psyching myself up before entering parties, large meet...

Why should people have babies?

Let’s face it, the little critters leak at one end and the other, and being a parent is an exercise in spending three to five years in smelliness and grubbiness. I remember days I didn’t even know what I was washing off my hair (but knowing my boys, it was probably peanut butter.) I remember the disturbed sleep patterns. I remember worrying obsessively about them. (Okay, that was last week.)

So, why have kids at all? Why does anyone bother.

Because we’...

The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay. It is come about because the gentle indifference in the lower trigram has come together with the rigid inertia of the upper, and the result is stagnation. Since this implies guilt, the conditions embody a demand for removal of the cause. Hence the meaning of the hexagram is not simply ‘what has been spoiled’ but ‘work on what has been spoiled’.

At various times in my life I was friends wit...