I wanted to talk about books

I love to read.  Absolutely.  If they want to make a place I'd never leave, just combine a library with Hobby Lobby.  Oh, and some food somehow.  I'll read almost anything except horror.  I have kids, a family, I don't need to have any more random scary things to imagine happening to them.

I've been thinking about sci-fi lately.  A friend on Facebook posted an article challenging authors to write about happier worlds, not the dystopian stories like Hunger Games.  What would you write about where technology makes life better?  I've read several of J.D. Robb's (Nora Roberts) novels set in NYC about 50 years in the future and I don't really think I'd like her world.  From the silly to the serious: there's only Pepsi, no Coke.  I'm a big fan of Vanilla Coke Zero and I'd miss it.  Also, they've legalized prostitution, basically.  Anything to make money, right?  Ick.  And they somehow have squashed down the Constitution and removed guns from normal people and even cops.  Only the bad guys have the big weapons.  Not smart.

I'll do some more thinking on this.

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I've never blogged before, but I type much faster than I can write by hand.  Yes, I know cursive.  Yes, my kids will know it too.  The older does, the second is too young still.  So, what do I want to write about?  How will anyone even find this?  I don't know yet, I still have to figure that out.  So, the topics I've been pondering lately vary from parents to parenting to crafting to suicide.  Robin Williams' suicide bothers me.  I'm a Christian, so I believe in heaven.  However, I don't believe that everyone goes to heaven just because they're dead or they were a "good person."  What does "good person" even mean?  Is there a balance beam and if you're better than half the world you're good?  Anyway, his death bothers me.  I watched him on Mork and Mindy, but I don't remember him guest starring on Happy Days.  That was the show, right?

I've been thinking about faith and religion and how the world sees religion, specifically Christianity.  It is the defining basis for my life, but I know it's not the same for many people.  Media, culture and many of my own relatives are pretty hostile to Christianity, if not specifically to me.  I've been thinking about what the alternatives are.  I think one prevailing view is that when you die, it's over.  There isn't really anything after death.  Or if there's a heaven or an afterlife, it's pretty generic, floating on clouds, playing harps.........not anything particularly interesting.  So when a tribute that said "Genie, you're free....." came out, it just made me sad.  Because I don't want to think that a man who made me laugh isn't in heaven.  I'm pretty sure he's not, because I don't recall anything mentioning about any religious views he held, let alone being a Christian.  And that makes me sad.  I wish it made me more bold about my faith, but so far, I wimp out.  And I'm not entirely sure why.  Which is why I'm making this blog anonymous.  I'm just a woman with feet of clay.  I am still afraid of ridicule by the world, even though larger things are at stake.

Not where I thought I'd go with this.  I really want to ramble about lighter things, such as books, crafts, kids, life, funny things, science jokes and stuff like that.  Guess it isn't happening today.

Now, how in the heck do I use hashtags?  Will it work here?  How does anyone find a random blog anyway?

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