That was one thing about the Deaf community I always admired beyond belief – they were the most accepting lot I’d ever come across. It didn’t matter what else you had to deal with, blindness, mental challenges, fetal alcohol syndrome, autism, whatever else you were dealing with, if you were culturally Deaf, they accepted you as one of their own. Even, apparently, if you had supernatural sight.
There were few things Deaf people found more amusing than hearing people who knew just enough sign to be dangerous.
Knock, knock.” Auri put down her coffee and texted back. “Who’s there?” “A little old lady.” She knew this one but went along with it, anyway. “A little old lady who?” “Oh, my god! All this time, I had no idea you could yodel!
Life isn’t a fairy tale. If you lose a shoe at midnight, you’re drunk.
Her face, a face that had been rosy not thirty seconds earlier, paled at my suggestion. She backed away as though I’d just told her I was going to murder her and keep her heart in a jar on my desk. I would never do such a thing. I’d keep it in a jar in the cupboard. I wasn’t morbid.
Coffee was that place where the sun comes up over the horizon and lights the heavens in a burst of vibrant colors.
Just to believe in yourself. Respect yourself and who you are and don’t ever let anyone change that.
Roda?” asked, combining his name with Yoda’s.
Gemma walked up behind her and did the crazy sign, which since she was a psychiatrist seemed very unprofessional.
I tried to roll out of Reyes’s arms. He tightened his hold. I tried to lift an arm off me, but he clasped his fingers, essentially locking me in. “Reyes,” I said, stifling a giggle, “I know you’re awake. You can give up the game.” “Never,” he said into his pillow.
My entire life can be summed up in one sentence: “Well, that didn’t go as planned.
Humor is so subjective, not everyone is going to get what you are peddling. Others will be offended when what you meant no offense whatsoever. Those are the stakes. You have to be able to stand up for yourself and what you’ve written. Comedy pushes limits, makes people uncomfortable, and is a natural reaction to the environment. Otherwise, as I said, it is forced. Let it flow and give your characters permission to cross a line or two, but only if you can take the heat afterward.
I cannot tell you how important fresh, crisp writing is for an aspiring writer. Plot is great. The overall concept is super important. But the writing is what sells your work. It all boils down to the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them.
I was more than willing to put aside the Charley Davidson Book of Etiquette and Mud Wrestling if it resulted in earth-shattering orgasms.
Cookie’s cousin Lucille, for example. Or her second cousins. Or her uncle on her mother’s side. Her whole family, in fact, was a Harvard study waiting to happen.
If he eats French fries with a fork, he’s probably not going to do that thing you like with his tongue. -True fact.
When the men started to argue about the logistics of my devouring my own husband, which screamed cannibal in my humble opinion, my temper soared.
Guys, gray in the beard is sexy. Leave it alone. Thank you,-Grown Ass Women.
Never underestimate the power of a woman on a double espresso with a mocha latte chaser high.
I’m a coffeeholic on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m on the road to the coffee shop.