by Alica McKenna Johnson | Mar 14, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
I spent yesterday in a six hour PTSD workshop, then last night at 2am one of the work kids woke up and it took 45min to get him back to sleep, so right now I’m tired, moody, and also analyzing myself for any signs of PTSD. I’m not sure if this blog will ever see the...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Mar 7, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
The perfect guy is boring! I ranted recently about female characters, now it’s time for a go at heroes. Why are they suddenly always perfect? Especially in YA I see heroes with perfect abs, control of their tempers and hormones, money, understanding of their emotions,...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Feb 29, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
Okay I know this rant doesn’t cover ALL books, and of course I don’t mean yours 🙂 But seriously I’m getting a bit tired of reading books where the women either fall into a submissive housewife role as soon as they have a steady guy or are rude bitches pretending to be...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Feb 15, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
I love reading old books and not just because it makes me feel good to have read another “classic”, but because they are windows into our past. I love learning about how a day went one hundred years ago. Or that in the 50s moms would have homemade baked...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Feb 8, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
I have to admit that for me an alpha male has to be a badass. I also like them to be intelligent, sweet, caring, and able to cook and clean, but in the end it’s the badassness that makes me swoon. So what kind of badass things do I like to see my men do? Okay, so...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Jan 25, 2012 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
I realized that I have become a pessimist, and not a simple “the glass is half empty” pessimist, more of a “I bet someone put poison in that glass and is going to charge me to drink out of it, and then it’s going to break into a thousand pieces, each...
